This is an important kind of accessibility that is severely lacking in the medical world. My doctor should be as accessible to me as her front office is. She should be as accessible as a designer is to his clients, as owners are to their dogs, as a manager is to her employees.
Today, I still need my scooter and wheelchair to get around. But something inside me has changed. I have a sense of freedom that is in some ways more powerful and sustainable than what I felt when I could walk and dance and run and play.
Because Jurassic Park was designed for accessibility, its door handles were long levers of the type recommended by design experts and people like me. Those doors had long, lovely user-friendly handles... easily manipulated by, in this case, hungry Velociraptors.
More than 51 million families in America live in multigenerational homes, which has more people considering adding on to their homes to make room for ...
It's a reality more families -- more than 51 million Americans -- find themselves dealing with: life in a multigenerational home, or a household with ...
With increasing security at airports around the world, flying has grown more stressful for all of us. But for people with disabilities, flying can be particularly daunting.
By Congressman Edward J. Markey, Mike Festa and Steven M. Rothstein
If you're an individual who's blind, deaf or both, navigating an intersection can...
Books like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter are going to be the saving grace of literature. Do modern youth want to see Stonehenge? They would if it was remodeled into a motocross track.
About three years ago, writer Rachel Bertsche moved from New York to Chicago with her husband-to-be, leaving behind her friends, her job and a city sh...
With the National Broadband Plan announced by the FCC this week, lawmakers have an opportunity to do something to positively impact the lives and well-being of every American for decades to come.
What these fourteen senators are now proposing with the public option is health care reform's phoenix. Or, to put it another way, the final chapter on the public option has yet to be written.
"Who Dat say Dey Can't Ride Dem Cars", "Let My People Ride" and "Paint a Red One Green" were the chants as New Orleans mayoral candidate Jonah Bascle...
This excerpt is from my interview with comedian Jonah Bascle, 23, running for mayor of New Orleans to help raise awareness of the need for wheelchai...
Regardless of the outcome, health care reform today comes down to four simple, words: accessibility, affordability, choice, and competition. For good measure, there is also perhaps a fifth word: right,