Disabled university staff ‘made to feel like misfits’

This sounds grim. I am an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland Law School and am totally blind. If you want a university that is exceptionally good at disability inclusion you should move Down Under. We have a really strong strategic and operational commitment to ability equality. I chair a university wide group and have seen academic research be turned into university policy and champions from the senior leadership team down to frontline services. Everyone has room for improvement, but compared to the experiences in this paper I am feeling very releved to be working at the University of Queensland.

This is spot on from my experienced as a PhD/ECR in the UK. Wheelchair access is virtually non-existent, and I've spent weeks (yes, weeks) of my own time trying to get the basics in place (unsuccessfully) just to be able to access the library or a computer. I gave up. The general attitude seems to be "we'll do what we can easily but anything that takes a bit more consideration or thought is just too much trouble, so we hope you'll just go away". I eventually ended up with a pay off - but still no structural change.