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Cartoon produced for the Liberation network of People with Disabilities by Keith and Micheline Mason. The image is titled "I thought Access was a credit card before I discovered steps" and shows a Library, Town hall and Cinema, all with step only access. A wheelchair user, a visually impaired person, an older man and a woman with a pram are all struggling to use the steps to the library and comenting on their efforts in speech bubbles. Several non disabled people / allies also comment, try to help and misinterpret the problems the Disabled people face. This is typified by the wheelchair user being pushed by a friend - "It's not me that's tiring, it is this environment" This echoes the central factor of the social model of disability, that it is barriers imposed by society that disable