Small victories.

The other day I repeated the treacherous journey that I made a week ago, which are discussed in in several tiktoks and on the earlier posts in this blog. I was fine thankfully. But I did run into a repeat problem, something that was there last week and was still in my way yesterday morning.

A white van with orange images and white and black text blocking a pavement on a corner next to a pole.

I ran into this van.

The same van that had meant that I had to go into the middle of the road on a corner in the dark last week.

After posting this again to my Facebook group it was suggested that I contact the email address on the van and explain my access problems because of this van.

I did this and received a reply shortly after. To my surprise on the return home this van was no longer there and therefore I was able to take this corner on the pavement. Which is a much safer option I think you will agree.

I did not expect such a response or action when I raised concerns of this with with the Facebook group and then the company. I was very pleasantly surprised.

It felt nice to know that I was actually able to make a difference to my own accessibility and no doubt the accessibility of others.

Perhaps this blog, and my social media posts will become more then just raising awareness and a tool for catharsis. Maybe they, or I, can actually lead to some real change in the world.

Somewhere it seems some are listening to me, and you know what that makes it worth the hate.

Do you go looking around for obstructions?

Pictured above is one of the comments left on one of my recent posts regarding accessibility. Below is a Tiktok hilighting all the posts that I have done over a 12 day period in my local Facebook which specifically highlight issues I have had in accessibility.

This shows how many times I can apparently raise a very real issue in a short period of time, before people actually start to ask if I am making it up.

As if they cannot fathom how serious it all truly is, how regularly this all happens.

Obviously I am not making any of this up. I am not infact going out of my way to find content to post about. I thought I would be able to post about this for a bit longer, before I had to defend the validity of what I am trying to do.

In fact my posts bring light to only the dangerous inaccessibilities or inaccessiblity which result in me having to change my route or plan for the day.

If I decided to post every instance of inaccessiblity that I face in a day, I would probably never stop posting.

But this is apparently the limit of what people can take when an issue they’re not used to or one that doesn’t effect them is hilighted.