Darice de Cuba
Darice de Cuba
Darice
Hello there! I'm Darice de Cuba, tea drinker, book reader, street photographer, writer, foodie and overthinker supreme. I'm passionate about inclusive design and accessibility.
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I’m not hardcore into travelling, maybe because every year or other year I travel to Aruba and Curaçao to visit family. This takes a bite into my vacation time and travel budget. Being a deaf solo traveller with a chronic illness also...
Social media gets a lot of bad rep, most of it deserved. For me, social media, specifically Instagram, is a way to meet people and find connection and meaning. Being late deaf has isolated me a lot from society, but thanks to Instagram I...
My resolve to keep my iPhone Mini 13 until it dies is crumbling. I still love the small form factor, but the battery capacity and small screen are becoming more and more of a hinder. Putting in a new battery won’t make things much...
This late morning while drinking a glass of water after waking up to rehydrate, I was of course scrolling social media and saw a post about Julia Roberts mentioning Morrissey, cancel culture and art. Besides thinking, I see her point, I...
Three years ago, I bought my first smartwatch after convincing myself it would make life easier. I wrote two posts about the Apple Watch and how it helps me with deaf accessibility. Before getting an Apple Watch, I wore an analogue or...
Toen mijn neefje het jeugdjournaal begon te kijken, besloot ik de Instagram-account van het jeugdjournaal te volgen om te weten wat hij allemaal binnenkrijgt aan nieuws. Handig om te weten wat een 9- of 10-jarige allemaal al weet van de...
Thanks to a random YouTube street photographer vlogger whom I happened upon just as they started vlogging, I picked up analogue photography again. He was on a trip to Japan and went to one of those tiny second-hand camera shops where he...
This year, I was asked again by Vasilis van Gemert to work with a group of students who followed his Human Centered Design course at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. The students were tasked with designing visual captions for me...
Every birthday I get to celebrate is kind of a big deal to me considering I have a rare chronic illness consisting among other of a transplant kidney. To still be healthy enough to work, albeit part time, to travel and just to be able to...
This year, I was able to attend CSS Day 2025 again. A yearly two-day congress with 14 talks related to CSS and the web. I missed the past two years due to reasons. But this year, the organization managed to arrange live captions, so it...
April was busy with doctor’s appointments, medical tests, getting results of the tests, and I still had to go to work. My stress level was above the chart, and when I realised I had a week’s vacation coming up, I decided to book a...
Since day one that I lost the rest of my hearing, I have been using Skype to video call my mom, who lives in Aruba. I am fortunate that I can lipread our native language, Papiamento, well enough to be able to communicate without too many...
Theatre is not something in my orbit. When I was a teenager, I attended one or two theatre productions when I lived in Aruba. But since I moved to the Netherlands at 19 it was no longer a thing I thought about. I do remember attending...