Amtrak Marks 36 Years of the ADA With a Big Accessibility Push

An AMTRAK train passes through a winter scene, with snow on the foreground and trees lining the tracks behind it.

/ 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

Black and white photo of a wheelchair user waiting alone at the edge of a sidewalk, separated from a passing city bus by a long metal railing — a quiet picture of navigating a world not built with him in mind.

/ 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 […]

Jezza Williams on Resilience, Adaptive Adventure, and the Making Trax Foundation

Jezza Williams, a disabled adventurer and tetraplegic, is helped onto a wooden wagon cart by local men on a rural path in Nepal, with cattle grazing in the background.

/ 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

A manual wheelchair positioned at an airport check-in desk, representing the experience of disabled travelers navigating air travel accessibility.

/ 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 […]

Accessible New Zealand Holidays: Why Winter Might Be the Best Time to Go

Wheelchair user in a power chair photographs the Hollyford Valley from an accessible viewpoint on the Milford Road, South Island New Zealand, with snow-capped peaks and a glacial river below

/ 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 […]

Accessible Australia: Exploring the Gold Coast in a power wheelchair

/ Travel Guides & Destination Insights / Accessible Australia: Exploring the Gold Coast in a power wheelchair If you are dreaming about visiting Australia, but are worried about accessibility, the Gold Coast is one of the easiest places to begin. Written and submitted by: Nicole @ Chair Went There If you are dreaming about visiting […]

Southern Airways Responds After Denying Disabled ‘Wicked’ Star Boarding

Image of Marissa Bode.

/ News & Opinion / Southern Airways Responds After Denying Disabled ‘Wicked’ Star Boarding Actor Marissa Bode, known for her role as Nessarose in the recent Wicked film duology, says Southern Airways has taken steps to address an incident in which she was prevented from boarding a flight due to her disability. In a Sunday […]