Posts Tagged ‘disabilities’

Wheelchair Users Must Walk

We’re going on a cruise for my 30th birthday in January, and I was checking out the shore excursions available. Here’s one of the options from Cartagena, Colombia: Take a panoramic tour of Cartagena in a vehicle designed to accommodate up to five collapsible wheelchairs. Please note this tour can not be pre-reserved. Please inquire [...]

No Door for You

This is stupid. Until yesterday, to access my work building, you had to have a swipe ID card – similar to how credit cards are swiped at the store. They had told us ages ago that they were going to replace the swipe reader with a proximity reader – you just hold your ID card [...]

NonFicWriMo #6: Assistive Technology and Computers

Since its earliest days, the Internet has been a great equalizer for disabled individuals. People who would not otherwise have the opportunity to communicate, do research, and contribute their own knowledge and opinions have been able to do all these things with the Internet. But disabled people don’t necessarily access the Internet the same way [...]