the Major thing I'd like to see is a governmental arbitration body similar to Acas, which for those not in the uk is the arbitration and conciliation service.

Essentially they handle industrial desputes between employer and employee, and have enough legal power to A, get the employer and employee talking and B, force any necessary changes agreed on in the arbitration, meaning that both parties have some degree of power and it's not all one person's way.

At the moment one of the major social problems in terms of disability is that any disabled person is instantly judged by those with no information about disability to be incompitant. You go for an interview, the employer hasn't seen any blind people before but automatically assumes blind people can't do the job so gives you some excuse.
Anti discrimination laws just mean the employer can't say "well I'm not giving you this job because your blind" even if that is actually the reason.

the problem is that essentially you have people with no knolidge of disabled people believing they can make judgements about disabled people.
therefore, we need an independent body with expertees in disability and idsability relations to essentially arbitrate matters, so that when a blind person applied for a job, they could say "hold on here is the arbitration committee, who will discuss things like screen reading software and how a blind person gets around without a car etc" and in turn will discuss with the blind person things like if the employer is worried about their filing system not being something a blind person could do.

it's essentially an attempt to get people communicating rather than just the "oh weerd blind person must avoid" which is the most common social attitude and what provides the majority of problems.
so, some sort of recourse to arbitration with power to inact changes, plus a good bit more education of the generalized public thathay, the blind person over in the corner is not making eye contact with you not because they're unfriendly, but because they can't so you bloody well ought to go and treat them like a human being rather than just ignoring them.

this is my serious suggestion and the one Im writing into my research.

My slightly more impish suggestion which i sometimes feel is superior, is that the government ought to allot every disabled person five freely sanctioned governmentally approved murders!
That is, you ring a hotline and say "I'd like so and so to be killled" and bam! they are.
Just five in your hole life.
the problem however is that Jo public wouldn't know at any given time how many murders any disabled person had used up or whether or not they'd be willing to do so, so Jo Public would have to be a bit more reasonable.

that would sort out the power disparity between disabled and none disabled people methinks .

Admitedly this is just an idle fantasy and probably wouldn't work in reality, still I do find it an amusing thought.

@simba, nope I've not seen the purge but have heard about it.
I did say though the second  comment about the government sanctioned murders is not a  particularly serious one, albeit sometimes I do think it'd be a good idea.

why. what exactly would be accomplished by this. just because someone is disabled they should get 5 murders sanctioned right? heck, a perfectly fine friend of that disabled person can't urge him to ring the hotline and bam? "hey bud, couldya ring up that line and get Jo killed for me, bruh? i'll hand you over 10 bucks, ok? yeah.". interesting thought though. there could be a lot of groups demanding their fair share as far as that "thought" is concerned, for whatever reasons.

well i also had a fantasy about a sort of secret organization fully sanctioned by a govt but for the purpose of  monitoring inconvinience caused to disabled and take action to stop it right in its tracks. for example, if Charlie is bothered by a few persons at his workplace who think he's worth nothing and they've got every right to cause as much trouble to him as possible, he might as well ring them up and next moment there could be a couple of mean looking men sneaking up and watching over, and when the time comes they could as well catch each one of them at a corner and warn them "in their own language". probably interesting to keep them off the hook for a while, lol. however a system like that might help getting proper revenge too, one calls that assistance hotline where he tells about his arch enemies and how exactly he'd prefer them to be dealt with and again the creepy looking guys could come up and teach his enemies a lesson accordingly and also offer him protection from a counter attack, lol. . as much as this may sound unfair to some as calling up goons and petty criminals to take care of things, just like a classic novel or a movie or whatnot else. but since when is the idea of murders more morally appropriate than this one?

The accessible video games act. All games must be playable by everyone. If I can't play them no buddy can. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! These sightlings had it too good and for too long.

Putting Braille labels on everything in a store would be painfully inefficient. In a perfect world, it sounds like a great thing, but honestly, you'd have kids peeling the labels off and either eating them or throwing them all over the place all the time. The kids that are old enough to know better, but have an inner demon breeding in them, would take the labels and swap them, so that you might, say, get a can of cream of chicken soup rather than the can of green beans you wanted. And, since most kids lack any sense of respect nowadays and act like little assholes, that would happen a lot more often than one might think. Plus, the labels could very easily just fall off due to everyday handling, or get lost in transit.

There's also the fact that it would be much slower to read stuff in Braille than it would be for a sighted person to scan a whole aisle of products with their eyes. I don't care how good your Braille reading skills are, nor what the NFB claims can be done with just the help of a slate and stylus, that would be unequivocably slower. Plain and simple.

Agreed, although at least with the advent of smartphones, you can plug in some earbuds to identify your money in peace and privacy. But that's still very slow and awkward to deal with when you're trying to make a transaction. Not to mention that international currencies are often not identified by said apps, which leaves a ton of people in the dark.

@sid, the point of the murder thing was that there are too many situations where someone can basically behave like an arse to a disabled person because they can with no consequence, the murder thing would equalized power a bit, or at least that is the idea.
it's not a serious suggestion, since yes, it's open to abuses and people paying disabled people to use their murders, but it is a reflection of the fact that there does need to be a little more recourse when someone for example tells a disabled person they don't get the job due to the position already being gone or their application being two minutes late or some such nonsense when actually it's just because the person is a scuzbag.

After all, if the government doesn't exist to protect individual citizens from exploitation and insure equity, what is the point of a government in the first place?

As to money, well I do have to say the united states has probably the worst money in the world in terms of recognition, or at least the worst I've ever seen. All the same colour and same size with no difference.
In the uk the notes are different sizes, and if you can see them, colours, plus the lowest denomination of note is five pounds meaning that you can have coins that are vaguely worth something and don't have to always be scrabbling with notes just to buy a coffee, (five pounds is roughly eight dollars).

I agree though, braille on money would help a lot.

For recognition of products, while I certainly agree turtlepower that some scumbag would likely change lables, at the same time I don't think this would be as likely if the labels were inset into the packaging rather like the labels that already exist on medicine boxes and bottles of things like bleache, indeed it rather amuses me that the only things with! braille labels are things that are dangerous to the health, --- -so if your blind, you can't find any food, but your quite up on stuff that will injur or kill you?  there are so many ironic things I could say about this but I'll just leave it there .

Another possibility might be having a universal system like the penfriend with speakng lables you could activate with a smart phone or other device.

While it would take longer to find items in a shop, i mainly see braille lables as necessary when you have stuff at home, or when the person in the shop has no dam idea what your asking for.

I'll confess it really gets on my whick when I either go shopping and get a complete moron who has no idea what I'm actually looking for, or still worse, when I discover that the shop has had! something I would've liked for a considerable time and I just didn't know.
Eg, for years I bought diet coke at one pound thirty a bottle without realizing the same shop sold diet iron brew at ninety nine pence for a bigger bottle, and since I also actually like iron brew rather more than coke anyway this one was a right pest.

Oh, and an accessible games act would be olovely, albeit I doubt it'd ever happen.

Interesting, that's the first time I've ever heard of a money identifier that worked that way. I've only ever seen talking ones, and of course smartphone apps, as I said.

That's a good point, Dark. If the labels were non-removable, then I could actually see some use for such a system, especially if you ever get stuck in the unfortunate situation where a store employee who's supposed to be helping you is either clueless about what you're asking for, or doesn't speak English well enough to understand what you need help with. While I've never encountered the latter situation, I've known people who have, and it sounds absolutely hellish.