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What About the Faces Behind the Screen?
Did you know that 71% of people with disabilities leave a website immediately if it is not accessible? Faces Behind the Screen (FBTS) is a storytelling project that strives to spread awareness about web accessibility by sharing stories from individuals from the disability community. Technology Users with Sensory Disabilities Find a Voice Launched in early…
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Abilities Expo and Wheel:Life Join Forces for the Community
Wheel:Life—a global initiative that assists people in addressing the many challenges and questions that come with using a wheelchair—is hitting 2015 running with a relaunched website and propitious new organizational partnership with Abilities Expo. “With our virtual audience spanning the globe, we wanted to do more to help introduce our members who use wheelchairs to lifestyle-enhancing…
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Meet the Startup that is Making the Great Outdoors Accessible for All
By Camilo Navarro, Wheel the World It was November 2014 when I visited Patagonia, the famous Torres del Paine National Park in the very last corner of the earth. There is a famous hiking circuit called the W trek, named like that because of the shape of a famous trail that you hike in five to…
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Wheelchair Accessible Travel…You CAN do it!
By Kristy Lacroix, Wheelchair Escapes Where would you like to go? What would you like to do? The world is opening up to the wheelchair traveler and I am here to help your accessible travel dreams come true! See the World from your Wheelchair I am a Certified Accessible Travel Specialist with more than 24 years…
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5 Crucial Tips in Planning Your Wheelchair Accessible Vacation
By Tabassum Chagani, Travel for All With or without a wheelchair, the best way to see a city is to take transit, get off in the heart of it, and wander around. I’ve lived in L.A., Atlanta and Pakistan—so I’m not afraid of big cities or traffic. However, here are a few things to keep…
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Help Create the World’s Largest Wheelchair Painting at Abilities Expo
By Dwayne Szot, Zot Artz Arts for All Ever since I was a kid living in a foster home with children of all abilities, I’ve been coming up with ways to utilize technology in order to allow people with disabilities to better engage and express their inner artist. Now, at Abilities Expo Los Angeles from February…
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Abilities365.com Features Hill-Rom-Liko
With patient care and safety topping their priorities, Hill-Rom-Liko prides itself on the fact that caregivers worldwide look to them for solutions. In their quest to enhance their exceptional products and expand their ability to provide patient support systems, they have acquired several strong performers in the industry. Six years ago, after Hill-Rom acquired Liko,…
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Record-breaking Athlete to Launch Wheelchair Stunt Video Game
By Trevor “Trevair” Snowden, Trevair Designs Not even my snowboarding accident two decades ago could quash my love for extreme sports. Since then, I’ve set world records, founded Trevair Design and created custom suspension wheelchairs that are used in the exciting sports of Wheelchair MotoCross (WCMX) and Wheelchair SuperCross (WCSX). What else can I do…
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Explore Accessible Solutions for your Home
By Eric Rubel, EHLS There are many challenges in our homes that can make it difficult for people with limited mobility or disabilities to safely navigate. Fortunately, there are a number of available solutions that enable people to live safely at home. In this post, we’ll highlight the solutions that are most often added to make…
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Wheels with Wings: Healing Takes Flight
By Lisa Wells, Wheel-Life.org In 2004, at the age of 24, Natalie Marie Barnhard was working as a physical therapist assistant and licensed massage therapist—a great job in a field about which she was extremely passionate. Then a catastrophic accident changed her life when a 600-pound exercise weight machine fell over and landed on top of…
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Accessible and Universal Home—Thinking Beyond the Wheelchair
By Deborah Pierce, AIA, CAPS, Author of The Accessible Home Accessibility is usually a low priority when young families are house-hunting. Good schools, certainly, a modern kitchen—these features top most lists. Homes that are environmentally safe, that reduce the chance of injury, and that accommodate all our interests—these features aren’t even on the radar screen,…
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What is Your Passion for Dance?
By Amy Meisner-Threet, SAG-AFTRA, MSW To dance or not to dance? That is not even a consideration for many despite what may appear to others to be obvious obstacles. By creating the full length documentary film A Passion for Dance, Dancer Donna Russo and Choreographer Tam Warner are determined to change the conversation about what it means…