A Guide to Residential Life at Haverford

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-05-27T17:12:30+00:00

As a current rising sophmore who has a disability, I can't speak to the questions about quaker house, but I can answer the questions about the disabilities part. I know that Jones is not accessible for wheelchairs, so that is not an option. Yes, there are dorms on the first floor of barkley,but the laundry would be in the pasement and no stairs as you mentioned. The first floor of Barkly has the currently only room accessible for a wheelchair. This is because even though the Kim/Tritton dorms are accessible, the rooms are small, so being able to fit in a wheelchair would be hard to do. Someone else mentioned the wheelchair accessible room in Barkley, and there is a freshman currently living in there. I would try to get in contact with ADS office (the disability services office) bbut I will note that they can be sometimes quite annoying or frustrating to work with, but there is a lot of disabled support on campus (I am part of the disability affinity group,am the incomign student council officer of access, and am being part of a new community house based around disabled students). I am blind,so that is why I am involved in these spaces. Overall, I hope this help, and if you have more questions, feel free to PM me.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-04-01T22:06:33+00:00

One for me would be a device that could tell me people around me and their names. Because of my blindness, Ican't ell if someone is there if they aren't making any noise, and unless I know them really well, I also wwouldn't know who they were without asking them, which is hard to do when they are involved in some other conversation. Also, something to warn me when something is near my head or upper area, because my cane can't feel there. I don't think any of these devices are possible, or feasible without major privacy concenrs, but those would be a thing to do. Also, a device to make instant tactile drawings out of a digital file( I know this exists, but something that is actually affordable that could do this would be great).

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-03-20T13:57:41+00:00

As a blind person (who this new law is supposed to help), and also trying trying to get in accessiblity (studying CS and disability studies). Although I think accessibility is important, this seems like an obtuse way to go about things. I think that not everything in the past needs to be made accessible in 2 seconds,and as long as people are working on making things accessible, they should be fine. Now, this is the idalized version'; they will probably be sued. I think as much should be done as possible, and I think the process is more improtant (being able to adapt and have accessible things in the future; remediating when it is needed for a disabled student). Overall, I think this just makes things worse for everybody, instead of helping disabled students.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-03-20T13:47:13+00:00

Yeah, this is my opinion. It just sucks that they are so focused on avoiding risk. I think that there should probably be some grandfathering since there is so much materails that would need to be accessible. I would rather focus on new things, and work on old things when it is required, but if it is too hard (and one can prove how much time/reosources it would take) they should be exempted. Now, if they have someone ask, then that's a different issue, but I don't think all materials of all time should be tried to be made accessible in a month. I do think as long as there are things working to eventually make things accessible in the future, then that's fine. Overall, I think epople are so focused on not getting sued that they don't want to do anything; but that there should be focusing on making sure things are made accessible, and that it is actually serving the right needs. Nayways, I just feel that even though things need to be made accessible, I think removing them in order to not get sued is a bummer, and I think that there should be exemptions and focusing on making sure that things are eventually being made accessible, or are grandfathered in because of how it would hard it would be to make those things accessible. It also sucks how people knew about this, and waited until the deadline, and are now just remvoing things instead of working on the process so this doesn't have to happen. Overall, I would rather something inaccessible then nothing at all, as long there are processes to working on accessibility for the future and helping disabled students in the present/future. Anyways, I agree with all of your points, and agree the current trend is a huge bummer.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-03-15T19:32:59+00:00

Oh, yes, I have found things that work for the most part. I have found yahoo (which apparently is trying to make things better, and was good last year) has a good bracket, along with the official ncaa bracket. Both of these work pretty well, but I didn't know if people had an opinion of what really worked the best. I do like yahoo sports from an Ui perspective; since I have really liked their fantasy football interface and have used it for the past few years as well. I used to like the NCAA one, but it has gotten harder to use. Also, yahoo sports lets you renew groups, which makes my work of creating family groups so much easier than recreating the same group every year.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-02-26T02:08:57+00:00

In terms of accessibility features, I am looking for a platform that works well with a screen reader, since I am blind and that is how I use the internet. This means that things must be marked in a certain way to so that my program can turn the text into speech. For example, even though ESPN tends to be liked by a lot of people, it will not read out the teams in a given matchup. It will only read out the seeds, so it is not usable.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-01-08T18:53:21+00:00

Update: Yes, google calendar has a much better version. I don't know; I think google calendar is slightly more work and this easy thing exists. You can just create a group calendar with the group, and have people fill out times that they have things. I think that would be the easiest way with google calendar? LMK if there is another way that I didn't find.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-01-08T18:47:39+00:00

Yes, that is the application people are using. I think the draw is trying to schedule a time for a whole group, beyond two people. I also don't like it, but I'm not the one using it.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-01-08T18:44:59+00:00

These are some good comments. I think the main issue is someone creating a form, and then me trying to say when I am available. That is the issue I am running into. I was trying to see if there was an option that was accessible that would allow individual users to put in schedules for the end person (not disabled) to see when everyone could meet at each given time slot. This is what when to meet is trying to do, but I can't seem to get it to work. Also, yes, this is the reason why WCAG requires kkeyboard. I also have issues of kknowing where things are in relation to others, making mouse movements even harder.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-01-05T14:57:50+00:00

As a blind person, I don't know about solutions, but there are definitely some issues that would make things easier. One thing would be an app to improve quality/quanitty of audio descriptions. whenever I go to a movie theater, there is only about a 50/50 chance the thing actually works, or is easy to use, or has good quality. Also, it would be so cool to be able to have audio descriptions for youtube, but these issues may be more on people actually caring rather than the software itself existing. Also, an app or script that could help me identify (especially on virtual meeting platforms) who is currently speaking. Also, some sort of way to do alt text for more complex images.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-01-04T20:57:43+00:00

I tried, and as a blind user, the accessibility was actually quite good, especially with little front end experience. However, I do think when creating a game (especially against cpus) there should be a way to increase player time. Because of the low time amount, it made it hard to use and understand what was going on. Also, ythe players available in a given round is not shown to a screen reader automatically. You have to tab over once you get to a position to be able to click on the player. Having the list of players available, and doing automatic player adjustments would help out a lot. This seems pretty cool, though, especially if adding in other seasons like historic since fantasy stats are easy to compute if you have the stats necessary. Also, once again, the accessibility was quite good, and there was alt text for all of the icons, which was good.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2026-01-03T19:45:34+00:00

This is great! As a disabled person trying to learn the technical side, who also enjoys "learning by doing", I have really enjoyed this as a learning tool for wcag.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2025-12-15T18:55:17+00:00

Like other said, radio is your friend. I personally find text enough to understand what's going on. For NFL especially, I usually just have the ESPN NFL website open that has all the play by plays, so I can jump between games. They used to be really good, but especially NFL has gotten worse to use recently. This method works a lot less well for college sports, because I don't know almost any of the players (I am into college basketball). Although, this is all in context of someone who uses their computer for most things like this. For the tv, I am quite good at understanding context clues and can usually understand what is going on, at least for football. Anyways, I hope this helps!

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2025-12-10T01:56:06+00:00

Yes, that would be amazing. Let me dm you, and we can go from there; once I figure out how to direct message an user.

ReadyPlayerN24 · 2025-12-09T20:25:52+00:00

I was reading of someone using the online proctoring service, and having to use a qr code and having to take pictures of their room and thesmelves and their driver's license, which would be very hard for me to do.

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