{"id":7600,"date":"2024-12-20T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/?p=7600"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:59:45","slug":"gledilegt-adgengi-og-gott-nytt-hjalpartaekjaar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/gledilegt-adgengi-og-gott-nytt-hjalpartaekjaar\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy accessibility and a happy new assistive technology year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Pleasant accessibility and<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Happy New Assistive Technology Year!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dear Self-Help members, partners, well-wishers, staff, and all of you who work for and support the work of Self-Help lsh.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and peace, and thank you for the communication and friendship in the year that is coming to an end.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The year has brought us, among other things, hundreds of new ramps, and more accessible housing.,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">dialogue and plans for accessible workplaces and reasonable accommodations, amendments to assistive device regulations and the hope that people with disabilities will have the opportunity to engage in outdoor activities, sports, and leisure as other people do in their daily lives, \u2026and a new government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The year gave the community an opportunity to do better on accessibility issues and an opportunity to improve its attitude toward those of us who need assistive devices to get around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this and more, we are grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look to the future with hope and wish that the new year will increasingly bring us the fundamental right to access and participate in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We send our best wishes to the new government, with hopes for,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that in her platform, we who belong to the disability sector will be well represented,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">because our struggle is a human rights struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In the new year, we wish for our rights and existence to be respected, for obstacles to be removed, for a living wage to become a reality, and for an improvement in attitudes toward us.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>We wish everyone good access to the community.,<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>Ever-improving living conditions<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><em>and opportunities to enjoy and participate.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Self-Help members, partners, well-wishers, staff, and all of you who work for and support the work of Self-Help lsh.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13375,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7600\/revisions\/13375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sjalfsbjorg.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}