5 Crucial Tips in Planning Your Wheelchair Accessible Vacation
By Tabassum Chagani, Travel for All With or without a wheelchair, the best way to see a city is to take transit, get off in the heart of it, and…
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Wheelchair Accessible Travel…You CAN do it!
By Kristy Lacroix, Wheelchair Escapes Where would you like to go? What would you like to do? The world is opening up to the wheelchair traveler and I am here to…
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Meet the Startup that is Making the Great Outdoors Accessible for All
By Camilo Navarro, Wheel the World It was November 2014 when I visited Patagonia, the famous Torres del Paine National Park in the very last corner of the earth. There is…
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Abilities Expo and Wheel:Life Join Forces for the Community
Wheel:Life—a global initiative that assists people in addressing the many challenges and questions that come with using a wheelchair—is hitting 2015 running with a relaunched website and propitious new organizational…
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What About the Faces Behind the Screen?
Did you know that 71% of people with disabilities leave a website immediately if it is not accessible? Faces Behind the Screen (FBTS) is a storytelling project that strives to…
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You Don’t Have to Hear to Enjoy “Happy”
These days it seems like anybody whose anybody is covering or doing a parody of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy,” quite possibly the catchiest tune ever to grace the airwaves. And why…
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iDevices are iOpening for Blind and Visually Impaired
By Sheryl Bass, The Hadley School for the Blind In the eight years since the iPhone was invented, it has delighted social media savvy teenagers and overscheduled business professionals alike with…
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Group Travel…Is It for You?
By Debra Kerper, Easy Access Travel In all honesty, it took me a long time until I was ready to invite clients to join a group trip whether cruise or land.…
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Ground Therapy: Reconnect to the Earth and Feel Better Fast
By Martin Zucker, Co-author of Earthing Ground Therapy, or grounding for short, is an important self-healing application with special benefits for the disability community. Grounding connects you to the natural…
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Join the Movement! Vote With Heart!
What are you doing right…this…second? If your answer is logging onto www.votewithheart.com and joining 3E Love’s campaign to empower Americans who are passionate about disability rights, then…kudos! It will only take a…
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No Grit, No Glory: 5 Ways to Thrive in the Face of Adversity
By Michelle Colvard, Abilities Expo Ambassador Many people associate having a disability with weakness. With suffering. Or with inability. But in fact, I would argue that sometimes having a disability…
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Loving the Living Skeleton
By Greg Smith, Sr., The Strength Coach I’ve reached a milestone. I have achieved a victory over an enemy that has dominated me and limited me for as long as…