Listen to this Article Erika Rivers and Laura Oftedahl met just once by phone before traveling 8,000 miles and exploring New Zealand together. Their first conversation ranged from food preferences, to favorite hikes, to Laura’s time in the Paralympics. Little did they know the impact that this trip would have on both of them. Erika […]
The power of accessible travel
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Listen to this Article When Ken and Cheryl Edmonds couldn’t find answers to their simple questions, they started creating content about accessible travel. That content informs people with challenges, their friends and families, so they can travel better and avoid pitfalls. Find more on their social channels and blog, Traveling with a Chair. Cheryl I
Commitment to Inclusion and Accessibility is Front and Center as 1,000+ Visitors with Hidden Disabilities Convene in Greater Fort Lauderdale June 25 – 29, 2023 GREATER FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (May 31, 2023) – Visit Lauderdale, the official destination marketing organization for Greater Fort Lauderdale and a staunch champion of inclusion and accessibility, has proudly announced it
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Listen to this Article For the first time, I traveled with my wife and my two children (8 and 12 years) over the Christmas holidays to a warmer area, while the winter in Austria is very cold. We wanted to enjoy the warmth and took a Caribbean cruise on MSC Seascape, followed by a lovely
Listen to this Article Tara enjoyed a successful professional mountain bike career as a five-time U.S. National Champion, an X-Games gold medalist, and multiple World Championship medalist before a bad crash. She went on to a successful professional career in adaptive cycling, tennis and basketball. She recently opened up to Accessibility for All. AfA: Tell
Peggy’s Cove accessible viewing path Listen to this Article Canada is home to many world-renowned tourist attractions which helped draw 22.1 million visitors to our country in 2019. Yet with 1 in 5 Canadians, and over 1 billion people worldwide identifying as having a disability, ensuring these tourist destinations are accessible is essential to allowing everyone to participate fully in
Listen to this Article American Renee Bruns tells us how she set a Guinness World Record for the most countries visited by a person in a wheelchair in a year. Tell us about yourself and what brought you to where you are today? Renee: I was born with an undiagnosed skeletal disorder and started using
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Listen to this Article Our Mission We seek to improve the community of disabled people with their day-to-day basic tasks. We help institutes and governments around the world, and the rest of the civilian businesses, achieve this goal by providing them with assistive technology solutions that really help navigate the digital and online world. Today
Listen to this Article U.K. freelance journalist and public speaker Lydia Wilkins recently added another title to her resume—author. Wilkins, who has autism, published The Autism Friendly Cookbook in November, 2022. She also serves as ambassador for AccessAble, an accessibility guide in the U.K. and Ireland, for people with disabilities. A.f.A. : Tell us a
Talking with U.K. journalist and author Lydia Wilkins
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Listen to this Article Hamilton, New Zealand, 2017. Jenn Hooper, mother of two boys and Charley, a profoundly disabled 17-year-old-girl. A precious life worthy of the dignity so often taken for granted. A fierce determination to defy “acceptable” for an invisible sector of society. It all started with a twig, Jenn says, “When we realized
Profoundly disabled Kiwi kid leads the world
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