Audio-described transcript
Jane Britt:
Audio description: A blonde woman with pink glasses, earrings and jacket. She is wearing a white shirt and holding a cane. She is standing in a foyer.
Transcript: When I’m included in society as someone with disability, when someone else takes that into account – it feels like I belong, that I’m a member of that community that is valued, ah that I’m respected and that, you know, I have a valuable contribution that I can make to society.
I’m deaf blind and they come in and say ‘let’s see how we can make this so you can see it, and hear it’, then I feel like they have respected me as a person and my entire identity.
An example for me was that a local café asked me how it would be most accessible for me to pay. So we decided between ourselves that they would bring the terminal to me so that I could tap and pay at the table without me having to use my cane and navigate a space where I don’t know what obstacles are there and, um, go to a counter and potentially use a terminal where I don’t have the vision to be able to use the touch screen. So it was a way of making me feel like I was part of my community, that I went back to that café every day because they specifically decided to address my needs as someone with disability.