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A leading entertainment group has admitted discriminating against a disabled theatre-goer by forcing him to buy a ticket for the personal assistant (PA) he needed to accompany him to a concert. Doug Paulley and seven other residents of the care home […]
High-heels, institutional abuse, independent living, a bedroom tax protest, and a blunt challenge to the idea of pity… The subjects of the 800 images created by disabled people for the Postcards from the Edge project range across themes of communication, discrimination, […]
Music venues and festivals could soon be offering captions beside the stage so that deaf customers can follow a band’s lyrics as they are being sung and enjoy the banter between songs, according to a user-led charity. Attitude is Everything (AiE) […]
Nine in 10 disabled people felt discriminated against when they bought tickets to watch live music, because the booking system they had to deal with was so inaccessible, according to a new report by a pioneering user-led charity. Nearly half of […]