Saturday, April 20, 2024

Tag: Travel

Accomable.com

Accomable is the world’s leading platform for booking accessible hotels and holiday rentals. Our mission is to enable anyone to go anywhere. Accomable was founded...

Magee Rehabilitation Creates Accessible Travel Video for People with Disabilities

https://youtu.be/rjkb7VabsJ0 Magee Rehabilitation Hospital partnered with Southwest Airlines to create this video of helpful tips for people with disabilities who wish to travel by plane...

Quadriplegic is living a full life

Bungee jumping, paragliding and kite-surfing. Not everyone can do these extreme sports, but these are just a few of the things that Brenton Swartz,...

A better world for wheels on Google Maps

https://youtu.be/_LbO-lr-6lU More than 65 million people worldwide need wheelchairs. I became one of them after an accident eight years ago, and I discovered what it’s...

A phone call helped inspire Will to seize the high ground

SINCE a life-changing accident five years ago, wheelchair user Will Clark, from Grasmere, has become a charity volunteer, taken up sailing and ski-karting and...

She’s paralyzed. He has no arms. Together, they’re a sleek athletic team.

Hector Picard and Kerry Gruson were each in their mid-20s when devastating events permanently changed their lives. As a young reporter heading to Vietnam to...

Air Travel with a Spinal Cord Injury

https://youtu.be/5PsIBUtVoHA Aaron Baker, Shield HealthCare's Spinal Cord Injury Lifestyle Specialist, takes on his trip, from the airport to his bulkhead seat. Get some great tips...
Sargood on Collaroy

The Sargood Effect – Revolutionising Holidays for People With Disability

Everyone loves a good holiday. But for many people in a wheelchair, going on vacation can often be a very stressful undertaking. With much of...

Wheelchair World

We can all help each other to travel more comfortably by sharing our experiences! WheelchairWorld features holidays and travel reviews and resources for and  by...

Wheelchair accessible? Just ask Google Maps

Google is relying on crowdsourcing to make the world more wheelchair-friendly. The search giant has launched a new feature through Google Maps that lists whether...