Finding a Way to Stay on the Go For employees facing a condition that affects their ability to travel, Professor Hoffman suggests approaching a manager or company representative with suggestions on how the injury or illness could be accommodated, like rescheduling a trip or booking a direct flight instead of one with a connection. “The [...]
Feb 282007
New Software Blazes Barrier-Free Trails for Wheelchair Users Life sciences student Anette von Laffert is rushing to get to a rugby game. She hurries quickly down an alleyway but suddenly stops at the sight of an obstacle: a pair of steps. Oh no, she thinks. Here we go again. Or rather: Here we don’t go [...]
Feb 272007
Last month, I arrived in Denver on a flight and no aisle chair appeared. We waited. No aisle chair. The crew left, and the new crew came on. At first the new crew thought I was a pre-board who was going to be departing with them, and offered to make sure my wheelchair (“Is that [...]
Feb 272007
Is anyone familiar with a lawsuit that NJ Citizen Action has filed against NJ Transit? An able-bodied acquaintance of mine has recently had her eyes opened to the poor state of access in public transit. She is interested both in learnnig more and in helping improve things. Since she is specifically interested in how NJ [...]
Feb 232007
Edited: I screwed up by not being diligent in finding the original source of this cartoon (removed because I did not get permission to use it). It’s by Mark Parisi, and can be seen at Off the Mark and CafePress.
Feb 102007
The Boulder Book Store ought to be my bookstore of choice: locally owned, eclectic selection, new and used books – but it’s a three story (three and a half story?) building with no elevator, and the management has no intention of installing one. So I boycott it, unless I happen to be on the Pearl [...]
Feb 102007
When I talk to people about accessibility, it frequently takes them by surprise when I suggest that they add a statement about accessibility to their website. An accessibility statement describes what is and isn’t accessible at a particular facility, and saves a patron or visitor from having to call up and talk to someone who [...]
Feb 092007
Christiane has tagged me with a meme, to list six curious things about myself. 1. For 3rd and 4th grade, I attended the German School in Lagos, Nigeria. 2. Once upon a time, I thought I was called to be an Anglican nun, but the whole silence thing turned out to be a real obstacle. [...]
Feb 092007
Yesterday we went to see our lawyer about updating our wills. Our lawyer used to be a neighbor, but I haven’t seen him in four or five years, and he apparently hadn’t gotten the wheelchair memo. He came out of his office, looked at me in a sort of puzzled way, and said, “Is that [...]
Feb 092007
Despite her use of the unfortunate “confined to a wheelchair”, here is a minister who now gets it: A few months later, the decision was made to move our regular weekly worship to a new location due to the space limits at the park rec center. A local AME Zion church in our neighborhood opened [...]
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