12/Volumes/AZUL CLARO/DRC/NAAG/version to post on blog was Tuesday 17-30-2024-7532 Blogger Posts compilation and some commentary.rtf Fatal sensory overload prevention and enforcement Preventing the death and injury and pain of people, especially neurodivergents from sensory overload, especially due to bright white backgrounds, and above all from bright lights and screens by bringing back into force the original default background of screens, going back to the 1950s, namely of a medium to light grey background with low contrast with quite large (typically font size 20 or more on a Portable Computer or Desktop computer screen) with dark grey or light black sans serif text (such as arial) , in line with the enforcement criminally and civilly of the prevention of murder, other forms of homicide, torture and degrading treatment, inter alia, and also ensuring safe inclusive design, building on the principles of universal design It should be noted that, in some instances, and in some jurisdictions, the death penalty may be applied to those who, deliberately and/or negligently, kill people because of causing them sensory overload (very possibly for triggering an epileptic fit). Failing to revert the official global and local access standards to what they were before commercial interests were able to bling things up, making bright white backgrounds the default, exciting people to buy, and capturing the standards makers, falsely claiming this was universal design, will mean that deaths and damage from sensory overload, often by triggering an epileptic or similar attack, will continue. It is my own personal experience quite recently (in 2022), of getting the anti-torture authorities in Portugal to successfully threaten the University of Coimbra, including its Faculty of Arts, with action unless they conceded showing things on a grey screen. This was after a report on my needs had failed, despite documents of my diagnosis and assessment for visual stress in 2010 being sent twice by me as part of the evidence presented, to recommend a different colour background from bright white. It should be noted in this respect that vulnerability to this type of reaction is primarily linked to neurodivergence, especially in terms of heightened neurosensitivity, not disability and not everyone who is neurosensitive in this respect would necessarily be disabled. But they will be neurodivergent, at least in this way. This highlights the need for specific legislation on neurodivergence, including neurosensitivity, and a comprehensive linked enforcement of rules, regulations on this, with the creation of appropriate standards as well. Many, if not most and almost certainly the vast majority of neurodivergents do not identify as disabled and this is most unlikely to change. Up until now, however, neurodivergents have been forced to identify as disabled, very often, to have any chance at all of getting at least some of their needs at least partially met. Though, even then, very often, in vain. I know from years of involvement, including as a member of the British Standards´ Institution Disability Expert Reference Group (DERG), followed by their Accessibility Committee, that going down the disability route has not proven sufficient. And standards remain worse than when the blinging up, overloading process gathered speed as lessons from Ancient Rome and earlier, all the way through to the Victorian age, were deliberately ignored and suppressed. Of course this must be linked, at a global level, to the United Nations´ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially Goal 10: Reducing Inequality within and amongst countries, https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal10, but the obligation to prevent torture and to hold people to account for it, is a far stronger ground to take effective action on globally over this. I would only add, in terms of all this, if you’re not part of the solution, then you´re part of the problem. 17 years on from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UKGBNI) Disability Rights Commission (DRC) Neurodiversity & Autism Action Group (NAAG)´s final reports and documents (two of the three of which, including the Majority Report) this is where we are! Where we go from here, next, might be to look at torture and pain conventions and laws and mixing this with the UN Disability Convention, especially universal design conventions and demands concerning neurodiversity legislation DRC NAAG blog posting links: 1. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UKGBNI) Disability Rights Commission (DRC) Neurodiversity and Autism Action Group (NAAG) Unanimously Agreed Documents: Neuro-Diversity: Meeting The Challenge Conference Held at the Radisson Hotel Manchester, on Monday 26 March 2007 Report of conference https://drcnaagimplementationandlegacy.blogspot.com/2024/07/united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and_96.html 2. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UKGBNI) Disability Rights Commission (DRC) Neurodiversity & Autism Action Group (NAAG) Neurodiversity, Equality and Human Rights by Jo Todd - Unanimously Agreed Report to which Unanimously Agreed Disabled People´s Charter of Essential Needs to be Met and the Majority Report "The Majority is the Truth Plus One" was added https://drcnaagimplementationandlegacy.blogspot.com/2024/07/united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and_30.html 3. Legacy Group on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13521467 https://drcnaagimplementationandlegacy.blogspot.com/2024/07/legacy-group-on-linkedin.html 4. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UKGBNI) Disability Rights Commission (DRC) Neurodiversity and Autism Action Group (NAAG) Comments on and endorsement of the Majority Report by the entirely user-led and user-run Politics of Autism Group (precursor to the Autistic Rights Movement (ARM) at their meeting on 26th September 2007 and some follow up on this through to October 19th 2016 https://drcnaagimplementationandlegacy.blogspot.com/2024/07/united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and.html 5. Disabled Peoples' Charter for Essential Needs to be Fully Met - as agreed unanimously by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (GBNI) Disability Rights Commission (DRC) Neurodiversity and Autism Action Group (NAAG) and subsequently by the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) as a whole, and signed off by Baroness Campbell, DRC Chair https://drcnaagimplementationandlegacy.blogspot.com/2024/07/disabled-peoples-charter-for-essential.html 6. Disability Rights Commission (DRC) Neurodiversity and Autism Action Group (NAAG) Majority Report "The Majority is the Truth Plus One" in full (including Unanimously Agreed Disabled People's Charter of Essential Needs to be Fully Met and Appended Unanimously Agreed Report Neurodiversity, Equality and Human Rights by Jo Todd https://drcnaagimplementationandlegacy.blogspot.com/2024/07/disability-rights-commission-drc_30.html 7. Disability Rights Commission (DRC) Neurodiversity & Autism Action Group (NAAG) Majority Report additions to unanimous Report Neurodiversity, Equality and Human Rights by Jo Todd. Majority Report Title: The Majority is the Truth Plus One - A Neurodiverse Contribution to the Overall Equality and Human Rights Agenda as well as the Rights of Neurodiverse People https://drcnaagimplementationandlegacy.blogspot.com/2024/07/disability-rights-commission-drc.html 8. Workable solutions to achieve maximum neurodivergent inclusion in accordance with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG10 - To Reduce Inequality Within and Among Countries by ending "Neurowashing" and Potentially Fatal and/or physically painful Torture Against Neurodivergent and other more sensitive and/or exposed people contrary to the Torture prevention Conventions and other global, international, Continental (including pan-European and European), national, regional and local laws, regulations, codes of practice, torts and contracts, and internal regulations and procedures, correctly interpreted, building on this Introduction to and Presentation of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - UKGBNI- Disability Rights Commission - DRC- Neurodiversity & Autism Action Group - NAAG - Majority Report (passed by 9 votes to 7) - Neurodiversity, Equality and Human Rights Report: The Majority is the Truth Plus One - A Neurodiverse Contribution to the Overall Equality and Human Rights Agenda as well as the Rights of Neurodiverse People. This includes a first section of this report, to which Jo Todd’s Report is added, edited by Adrian Whyatt, Member, Disability Rights Commission - DRC- Neurodiversity & Autism Action Group - NAAG - in his official capacity as a Member of that Group - Including a Statement on why this Report is Necessary - from 2007 - with some updated commentary - to Monday July 16th 2024 traditional Orthodox Christian Calendar and Civil Calendar on Mount Athos Greece, July 29th 2024 (global civil calendar in use elsewhere), 7532 Year from Adam and the Creation of the World (Eastern Roman (aka Byzantine) Empire and traditional Orthodox Church Dating https://drcnaagimplementationandlegacy.blogspot.com/2024/07/workable-solutions-to-achieve-maximum.html
12 /Volumes/AZUL CLARO/DRC/NAAG/version to post on blog was Tuesday 17-30-2024-7532 Blogger Posts compilation and some commentary.rtf Fatal sensory overload prevention and enforcement Preventing the death and injury and pain of people, especially neurodivergents from sensory overload, especially due to bright white backgrounds, and above all from bright lights and screens by bringing back into force the original default background of screens, going back to the 1950s, namely of a medium to light grey background with low contrast with quite large (typically font size 20 or more on a Portable Computer or Desktop computer screen) with dark grey or light black sans serif text (such as arial) , in line with the enforcement criminally and civilly of the prevention of murder, other forms of homicide, torture and degrading treatment, inter alia, and also ensuring safe inclusive design, building on the principles of universal design It should be noted that, in some instances, and in some j...