San Francisco is a magical place to live. This is the city of charming Victorians, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Golden State Warriors, amazing cuisine from around the world, fog, redwoods, the gateway to the wine country, and on the fabled Pacific Coast Highway. In addition, not many people may know […]
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If you’re looking for sunshine, Greater Fort Lauderdale awaits with a big welcome. This South Florida favourite is packed with adventure, and yes, that includes adventure for travellers with disabilities. Whether you use a wheelchair, mobility aid, have sensory needs, or other invisible disabilities, this sunshine-soaked spot has you covered. Let’s
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Melissa Lyon, B.Ed., M.Ed., is a young adult who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy. She walks without assistance, but tires easily, has balance issues, and her lack of depth perception can cause her to trip. She also has a sensory processing disorder that causes her to be hypersensitive to sound, especially
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Welcome to my first blog post! Let’s get this part out of the way first: why I am here. I had a major stroke I had when I was a baby and my brain’s wiring is different. The medical community will say I have permanent damage because of that stroke — I have two big
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A conversation with Bart Vulliamy: What inspired you to organize a disabled-artist-only art show? I am a disabled artist. I had continually been let down with how inaccessible art shows, art markets, and galleries are still inaccessible to the majority of disabled artists, financially and physically The last three trips I
Las Vegas, NV (May 15, 2025) – In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Foundation announced today the launch of AI Model Accessibility Checker (AIMAC)—a new tool that evaluates and compares how well coding-focused Large Language Models (LLMs) generate accessible code—in collaboration with ServiceNow. AIMAC provides benchmarks for
Joe Devon Joe Devon doesn’t treat digital accessibility as a footnote in tech development. He presents it as a foundational flaw in the internet’s architecture, one that has been quietly ignored by the mainstream for far too long. And he should know. Fourteen years ago, he wrote a blog post that
What GAAD Reveals About the
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