A funny computer so i was ultra visible i had the same time i was also invisible because when people seeing me they think of all the assumptions all the enriches we have in Society Blind people the color most common images of the blind beggar and with that comes a low expectations and people assuming she is probably boring not going to talk to her or she probably cant work at my law firm im not going to go meet her all those negative assumptions then throughout our history the words down and dumb how often gone together which hurts the Deaf Community so many of us are extremely intelligent but people assume we are incompetent and they miss out on talent they miss out on opportunities so all the entity is interest sucked creating. By Society Creating more barriers with societys assumption and evil ism and reason and sexism so when we address disability rights we also need to advance opportunities for women and people of color no one advances if someone is still left behind theres a story that comes from the book which is when you went to the white house and it was a celebration of the american disabilities act you have the opening speaker for president obama at the time of Vice President joe biden i have a picture of hugh here with your bro machine but even behind this amazing celebration of people saying what a great speech the preparations were still a challenge so when you wanted to go up to the podium to check it out as every speaker loves to do there was a challenge involved in that when you solve that problem tell us how you solve that problem. So the white house was celebrating the e. T. A. The 25th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act so this was a disability centered event all about inclusion and access and i still feel just a barrier and my point with that story is even among family even disability events i still find myself advocating partly because i have such a rare disability blindness is rare its hard to find spaces where im automatically included heres what happened at the weight house when i arrived i brought a tape is to and communication facilitator named cameron who was highly experienced and done all kinds of events with me and they told us she could not go on stage with me. We asked him why she is really skilled and i want someone whos experienced and they said sorry its protocol they wanted me to go was someone who had not had experience with blinded to bits or was there was no time to to change the system so when i j really quickly is a train that person and i taught him how to guide the best way to guy and for me is to communicate environmental information that we as a dancer communicates music so through your shoulder and our own so we practiced going on and off the stage and i taught him how to use the keyboard in real display luckily it worked out well by people should trust organizations and institutions should trust people with disabilities when we request accommodations we are experts we know what works for us and we need society to listen. If i may just a sneaky little story off the back of that im going to show a picture of president obama at the time live in you and hes typing to you he decides hes not going to speak anymore hes going to type directly to you and then in the background we have the full work of Vice President joe biden and he wrote a little message to you as well to remember what he wrote to you i want you to tell the world because hes known for his empathy a rather warm approach to meeting people warm approach indeed. To our world so when i 1st met him the various thing he sighs not high not nice to meet you but 1st thing he says is i love you. Ate in the backyard. Lets hear it so i said i think you but i was thinking did he just declare love what does this mean. Is sometimes people when theyre encountered with that when they encounter something new they accidently blurt out things that just touch on the answer of what they mean so i try to see the best in the situation and assume that people mean well. And i took it as a compliment and him trying to communicate respect and admiration so many of these instances and you tell a couple of them in the book. Hinge on that on people meaning well but not knowing what to say and it leads to sometimes some awkward circumstances so i want to share a couple of tweets from anna on twitter who says the way to defuse those situations is humor she writes humor can relax everyone when you make a joke of your limits after which people can then listen better she goes on to say i have so many questions for hoben blush question one how do you find happiness in life you always sound so happy so calm and composed so happy im hoping you can answer both of those questions one how do you find happiness but also how do you then use humor to diffuse potentially awkward situations. Humor is only way to happiness humor dispels any disability related awkwardness people and there are prostitutes also end up finding the humor is agreed to will to break the eye and help people feel comfortable it shouldnt be our job to me nondisabled people feel comfortable but its a tool if you find yourself in that situation to help break that i is and hopefully teach them inclusion teach them to be better advocates how do i find happiness happiness is a process be honest with yourself what are your struggles what are your challenges and once you accept them and address them you can work towards solutions so happiness is a process of constantly having those conversations with their song. Theres a way that you approach your advocacy of the book which is by storytelling you tell a story using as an illustration you give some stats and then you say you do better this is how we can do better i am showing a picture with our audience of you in juno in alaska added last year and that was a time when you were hoping to get a summer job you were super qualified really smart student and you couldnt get a job and you share the statistic of about 70 percent of blind people never work so this idea of being a person a disability and not being able to work how are you working to change that. Thats a good question and so when i was in college i really wanted a summer job just like lots of other College Students and one of my friends told me i know a place where there are lots of summer jobs alaska and he was raped theres a large a Tourism Industry in juneau alaska and lots of some rich obs because of the Tourism Industry employers would see my resume and get excited and invite me to interview is i was valedictorian in high school really good grades in college lots of volunteer experiences and still employers didnt want to hire me able ism assumptions that i was incompetent i would not be able to do the job i applied to all kinds of jobs dishwashing shelving gift shops folding laundry in hotel these are tactile activities they dont require a site but they still assumed i couldnt do it and they wouldnt hire me that taught me that introduced me to employment discrimination and mean we realized working hard is not enough we also need employers to get rid of abel ism stop assuming that people with disabilities are incompetent at then to leave that summer i found a one employer it was inclusive. She hired me to be a front desk clerk at a small gym in juneau alaska so my responsibilities included managing the Cash Register the machines in the gym cleaning the changing rooms she didnt care with her used sight or nonvisual technique as long as i got the job done. Lots of people with disabilities have alternative techniques and alternative techniques are equal in value to mean stream techniques employers need to know that one day a woman came to the front desk in the gym and she said a treadmill isnt working i followed her to the chad mills and i pressed the on button and Nothing Happened i tried the other buttons on the missi and Nothing Happened so i thought the missi in from top to bottom and on the bottom i felt a switch i flicked the switch and the machine were till i believe he says only goodness i didnt see that switch i told i didnt see any of the. Sometimes that discrimination also extends to the Digital Space and so i want to share a comment from a disability rights lawyer in berkeley in the bay area pal fornia where it is also from. Digital accessibility is a human right of disabled people around the globe and here in the United States we have laws to protect that right people have been using those laws for more than 20 years to make sure the Digital World is available to everyone recently Dominos Pizza has asked the u. S. Supreme court to try to limit how disabled people can use laws to protect their right to be part of the Digital World we dont know whats going to happen with that and we wont know probably for another year but we do know that people with disabilities and their lawyers will continue to fight to make sure the Digital World is inclusive id love to hear from hoben about a lawsuit that she worked on that she talks about in her book that made a Digital Library with hundreds of thousands of books available to everyone so havent we have just about a minute left in the show but can you talk about that lawsuit. In my book they talk about a lawsuit where a library didnt want to make their website accessible they said under the americans with disabilities act digital polices dont have to be accessible and we need to learn to call it and the quote decided a yes on line places do fall under the americans with disabilities act and after that the library script settled and agreed to meet there when sarah to make their Digital Library accessible to blind readers business is the choose Inclusion Team or customers there are over a 1000000000 people with disabilities around the world its smart to choose inclusion. Thank you very much for being with us holograms the deaf blind woman who conquered harvard law is the name of her memoir account think of a better way to end the show than hear a lie computer watching hoppen celebrating the release of hope book wrestling dots of course enjoy. Putting. 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Almost all away including mother was because of stewart living there in the presence of who you know visions of the mother to walk into the city that theyre supposed to. Make stories generate thousands of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives how do you hold to account separate the spin from the facts. The misinformation from the journalism how careful must you your words but some tough stuff has to be said for some critics have to be made the listening post on aljazeera. Yemen southern separatists retake control of the coastal city of aden pushing back troops from the un recognized government. And welcome to aljazeera live from my headquarters in doha the realisable 400 also ahead. Outrage in the u. K. After Prime Minister boss johnson said the suspension of Parliament Weeks before the brakes a deadline back in charge just psychic calm take its a mandate to form a new government in italy. And a south koreas court a south korean point of order is a very trodden a Corruption Case involving former President Park geun hye and samsung chief jay widely. Reports and yemen say southern separatists have regained full control of the coastal city of aden both sides have claimed control of the city in the past 24 hours in the situation is fluid it comes after the separatists pull troops from the front lines fighting the hope these well this video posted by the southern separatists shows them celebrating the takeover of major ports but the government says its sending in reinforcements its forces recapture the air force in the president ial palace from the u. S. Backed separatists well lets get more on this now were joined by catherine shacks and shes the head of the Yemen Department of the peace building think tank next Century Foundation and shes joining us on skype from london very good to have you. On aljazeera to discuss what is very much a fast moving and fluid story in the south of yemen what is going on the government said that they retook control on wednesday after weeks of fighting today thursday the secessionists a celebration absolutely well i think realistically it is very likely doctors and specialists will remain in control of this sort of it is after all a stronghold of his movement and has been so many decades now and i think. Presented itself that weakening of the heads of bad governments know. The who sees towards this house has been bold and this is session is in to understanding that this is a new fortunately that big cannot miss and should do so that we keep the end of the movement and i think that the u. S. Clearly backing that movement in these idea that young men should be to yemen as opposed to one united. Has helped the situation a great deal and of course if things. Go well for good it is they change their mind they do not want to see to yemen is that previously claims there are so many questions here can the 7 separatists count on continued support from the m. Iraqis if they can keep control of aid and what does that mean are we looking at going back to preen 1994 when there were 2 gammons and also what does this all mean for the larger war in yemen for years the separatist have been fighting alongside the government in the south the erotic coalition against the whole fees. Its a lot to unpack a defers thing i think we need to understand is that these 2 lines that we saw in between the had to back governments and this is session is with one all it was an alliance that was very weak and the sounds that the only reason why as an fact had was because the police even rule and they understood that heidi had no other way to move to play adequate supply and that he would have to agree to some concession towards a secessionist and thats why i think they wanted to see happen now that this is breaking down for obvious reason they want to regain control of what they see as their sovereignty and i think its quite interesting to see how the saudi who claim from the very beginning of this who to be fighting for the sovereignty of yemen and for prodemocratic yemen are not sitting want small on the wrong side of history in the sense that are we have to admit that if you do believe in political set determination then the south and separatists have a case to make when it comes to claiming sovereignty over what they see as they country by land their nation and their whose very early on a ride back to the beginning of the yemeni revolution in 2011 made it very clear that they actually were siding with the south in secessionist in the sense that the understood to you what its meant to be a pariah politically and be denied and suffer and share with your own land so i think its quite interesting now that the that position have shifted while the u. S. Is actually seeing this is special needs for reason again which are very self evidence because the u. A. E. Always wanted to have a buffer zone against north yemen and having greater control over the water ways of yemen essentially the sequel because its helping that one position in dubai and securing what they see as an important which a way and i think this i would give the u. A. E. We have some kind of back and forth in terms of what they want to see happen they have a very different agenda. To the gender actually so its interesting to see how its playing out and we need to look at it but within. Is of course. Absolutely and if we do try to look at it from a broader perspective so the back and forth between the and the emirate he is but where does that leave the government we had a saudi representative crown Prince Mohammed bin son mans brother in fact in the u. S. Yesterday there was talk that the government was able to retake aden because of a possible deal so could we see a deal about aden let alone the wider conflict in yemen. I dont think so honestly tell us only one reason is that you know had he has lost all sovereignty over legit timoci when it comes to his presidency i mean he was left standing on one leg when you know the Resistance Movement in yemen led by the. And basically obliterated he claim to the great didnt see and now were going on several years and his presidency had ended anyway and now the only. Faction in yemen that still backed him in the south and separatists have now abandoned him and actually even worse and that they want to keep him out and they have defacto annihilated his claim to the presidency so its you know had left with an empty president ial seat with no claim to any sovereignty in yemen his government means absolutely nothing both in the now in the north and the south of yemen some wondering now what would you do because not the backing of government in essence thats not exist anymore not de facto so they might claim to you that you galathea these president s but again that would be a case to be debated because hes he was elected for 2