Disability Advocate Shane Hryhorec Removed From Virgin Australia Flight Over Wheelchair Power Device
/ News & Opinion / Disability Advocate Shane Hryhorec Removed From Virgin Australia Flight Over Wheelchair Power Device (Don’t forget to share your own experiences in the comments section found at the end of this article.) Adelaide-based disability advocate Shane Hryhorec was offloaded from a Virgin Australia flight from Sydney to Adelaide after cabin crew […]
A Small Latvian Workshop, a Paralympic Bronze, and a Stamp
/ Lifestyle & Disability / A Small Latvian Workshop, a Paralympic Bronze, and a Stamp In March 2026, Latvia won its first-ever medal at a Winter Paralympic Games. Poļina Rožkova and Agris Lasmans, competing in wheelchair curling as a mixed doubles pair, beat the United States 11–10 in an extra end to take bronze at […]
Accessible Tokyo: Your Stress-Free Guide to the City
/ Travel Guides & Destination Insights / Accessible Tokyo: Your Stress-Free Guide to the City Skip to what you need: Let me start with a confession. For as long as The World is Accessible has existed, I’ve avoided writing a Tokyo guide. Not because Tokyo isn’t worth writing about; it absolutely is. But because the […]
Amtrak Marks 36 Years of the ADA With a Big Accessibility Push
/ News & Opinion / Amtrak Marks 36 Years of the ADA With a Big Accessibility Push The ADA turned 36 on July 26, and Amtrak marked the occasion with a progress update on accessibility across its network. Most anniversary press releases are fluff. This one has numbers in it, so I read the whole […]
The Pride I Could Not Find
/ Editorial / The Pride I Could Not Find & The Price of Being Accepted For a long time I have sat with the question of why online ableist comments affect me so much. I think the truth of it comes down to this: they shatter my false sense of security that, societally, we’ve made […]
New Study Confirms What Disabled Travelers Already Know: Accessible Air Travel Still Has a Long Way to Go
/ News & Opinion / New Study Confirms What Disabled Travelers Already Know: Accessible Air Travel Still Has a Long Way to Go Ask just about anyone who has flown with a disability and they’ll likely tell you the same thing: it’s rarely the journey that leaves them feeling truly exhausted, it’s the accumulation of […]
Jezza Williams on Resilience, Adaptive Adventure, and the Making Trax Foundation
/ Opinion & Community Voices / Jezza Williams on Resilience, Adaptive Adventure, and the Making Trax Foundation Table of Contents Jezza Williams lives at the top of New Zealand’s South Island, a short drive from Abel Tasman National Park. It’s fitting, really. The man has spent the better part of his life in wild places […]
Flying With a Disability: What the Community Actually Thinks
/ Opinion & Community Voices / Flying With a Disability: What the Community Actually Thinks Table of Contents I saw a question posed on social media recently by the accessible travel community tabifolk, where they asked what people’s experiences were when flying with a disability. The replies came in their droves, across multiple Facebook groups […]
British Airways Denied a Disabled Passenger Boarding Over Bathroom Access. This Keeps Happening.
/ News & Opinion / British Airways Denied a Disabled Passenger Boarding Over Bathroom Access. This Keeps Happening. Samanta Bullock is a wheelchair user, a model, and a disability rights advocate. She had just attended a United Nations conference on the rights of disabled people in New York when British Airways refused to let her […]
Accessible New Zealand Holidays: Why Winter Might Be the Best Time to Go
/ Travel Guides & Destination Insights / Accessible New Zealand Holidays: Why Winter Might Be the Best Time to Go Published on The World is Accessible in partnership with Ability Adventures The road to Milford Sound has accessible viewpoints most visitors drive straight past. This one is reason enough to slow down. Ask most people […]