Access All: Disability News and Mental Health

Meet Matt King. He’s an engineer who works at Facebook HQ in California. He’s one of the people on a team who works towards making the big social network accessible. King explains the recent AI innovation on Facebook which describes photos to blind people. He talks about future aspirations and tells us what you can get to eat on Facebook campus, for free, at lunchtime. His favourite is a huge big salad, hence the title of this podcast.Presented by Damon Rose.If you want to contact us, share your views or anything else, email ouch@bbc.co.uk Tweet: @bbcouch or find us on Facebook.

The internet is becoming increasingly visual. How do blind people experience emoji's and is digital communication becoming more inaccessible? This episode was originally podcast in October 2015.

New research by charity Scope says 38 percent of us do it, but why? Emily Shanahan hid her Asperger’s and dyspraxia because she was being bullied at school. The London 2012 Paralympics helped her feel more positive about her impairments, and support dog Magic has given her confidence. Emily spoke to Emma Tracey.

Transport for London are trialing a badge which asks travellers to give their seats to passengers with invisible mobility impairments. Alan Benson from campaign organisation Transport For All gives us the background, and we find out what happened when presenter Kate Monaghan wore it on the tube.In Bite Me, a one-woman show about having therapy for bulimia, Joanne McNally ‘s eating disorder physically manifests itself as Louis Walsh. The Dublin-based comedian talks us through the nuts and bolts of the illness and describes her journey from binging and purging all day every day, to being in recovery and sharing the funny side of her “dark” and “scary” experience.Jack Binstead joins us with his social media update, and there’s music by blind singer songwriter Joe Kenny. Kate Monaghan and Simon Minty present.

The 17-year-old comedian with cerebral palsy talks to Emma about politics, osteopathy and his time on Britain's Got Talent.

Nils Bergstrand lost his leg when he was shot in a pub in Thailand ten years ago. From his experiences he says he has "made the show he would have wanted to see" when he first became an amputee. It's presently on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. (scroll down for a transcript of this programme in the Related Links section) Presented by Emma Tracey. Find BBC Ouch on Facebook, tweet @bbcouch or email ouch@bbc.co.uk

Two comedians at this years Edinburgh Fringe have shows about being blind. Jamie MacDonald is gradually going blind whereas Georgie Morrell lost her sight for a year before regaining it. (scroll down for a transcript in the Related Links section of this page) From people's low expectations through to spiders, taxi drivers and the beautiful Spanish phrase for "disabled toilet". In-depth humorous discussion presented by Emma Tracey. Like us on Facebook tweet @bbcouch or email ouch@bbc.co.uk Subscribe to Ouch's podcast and receive our programme every Friday.

What do puppets and disabled people have in common? Quite a lot as it happens. In a play about a two-foot-tall cloth puppet Fred, threatened cuts to his Puppetry Living Allowance mean he loses one of his three puppeteers and can no-longer live independently. (for a transcript, scroll down to the Related Links section) Emma caught up with Fred at the Edinburgh Fringe and heard about his troubles at the job centre ... and why he isn’t fond of the Muppets.

Mat Fraser and Kiruna Stamell cheekily read through a benefits application form. And Kiruna talks about a tandem skydive she recently did. Funny and fast-paced archive from 2008. (scroll down to find a transcript in the Related Links section of this page) Email ouch@bbc.co.uk, tweet @bbcouch or find us on Facebook. You can also take part in our new live video interviews on Facebook Live so go ahead and 'like' us. Introduced by Damon Rose. Be sure to come back next week for one of our Edinburgh Fringe special shows featuring some of the great disabled acts at the festival this year.

What might help disabled people’s hospital stays go more smoothly? You'll find a transcript in the related links section.Stacy is blind and in kidney failure but has been handed leaflets detailing her dialysis and transplant options in print, which she can’t read. Will the new NHS England Accessible Information Standard, which comes into full effect on 31 July, help her?Steph’s disabled daughter Daisy spends lots of time in hospital too. She often gets examined without being spoken to properly first. They are going to try wearing #hellomynameis badges to see if it makes a positive difference. Listen as Stacy and Steph compare notes on their hospital experiences.With Emma Tracey and Kathleen Hawkins.