Wheelchairtraveling.com has published my Travel article as Accessible Travel Tips – check it out and the many other great articles on the site!
Sep 282011
Jun 162011
I’ve never been on an organized tour before, but certainly one of the great advantages of this one was the excellence of the restaurants and meals chosen by the tour leaders. Accessibility was not as high a priority for restaurants as it was for hotels, but the meals were really good. I think the philosophy [...]
Wednesday evening we went to Denver’s Boettcher Concert Hall for the first time. This is a theater in the round, the home of the Colorado Symphony. Here’s what the Denver Performing Arts Complex website says about Boettcher: Boettcher Concert Hall is home to the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and is the nation’s first symphony hall in [...]
Mar 282011
As a wheelchair user, I’m a total sucker for drive-through anything. Drive-through banking, drive-through fast food, drive-through coffee, drive-through library book drop, drive-through liquor store—anything that enables me to get an errand done without getting me, myself and my wheelchair out of the car is pure gold. So I’m sad to announce that Starbucks is [...]
Mar 182011
In the first major update on accessibility in 20 years, the Revised Regulations for implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) took effect on March 15, 2011. Learn more about the revised regulations: NCPAD Media dis&dat Employment Law Watch
Feb 172011
This morning the DOT announced a record-breaking fine of $2 million levied against Delta Airlines for violations of the Air Carrier Access Act. Violations (which, as part of the settlement, Delta doesn’t actually admit to having committed) include leaving passengers with mobility disabilities on planes, at the wrong gates, and without wheelchair assistance in terminals. [...]
Feb 072011
…on the Parking Lot Snow Removal certification examination is: 10. Choose the correct location for the snow removed from the parking lot. a. The least used corner of the lot, furthest from road access b. The handicapped parking spaces c. The street Apparently, a passing grade can only be achieved by circling (b).
Feb 072011
Check out Scott Rains’ article in New Mobility – the first sentence will reel you in: What if the first question we asked was, “What is so unique about this situation that it justifies exclusion?” instead of, “How much does it cost to make it accessible?”
Nov 202010
After reading about a condominium association that refuses to allow a wheelchair user to walk her dog in and out the front door (residents are required to use an alternate route that includes a stairwell), and a school that has turned down a student because “her wheelchair would restrict the movement of other children in [...]
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