Original source: Associated Press Not every important advance in disability technology requires artificial intelligence, robotics or a laboratory full of expensive equipment. Sometimes innovation begins with a material growing locally. A project in Kenya has been developing lightweight wheelchairs for children using locally sourced bamboo. According to Associated Press reporting, the initiative involving Bethany Kids...

Original source: The Guardian Making public transport accessible is normally presented as something society should pay for because it is fair. A recent British analysis asks a different question: what if inaccessible transport is itself extraordinarily expensive? The Institution of Mechanical Engineers has estimated that fully accessible public transport in the United Kingdom could potentially...

Original source: Associated Press A theatre built more than two thousand years ago might seem an unlikely place to look for the future of accessibility. Yet the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in Greece has provided a striking example of what can happen when heritage and accessibility are treated as problems to solve rather than automatic...

Music is usually described as something we hear. Anyone who has stood close enough to a concert speaker knows that description is incomplete. Bass is physical. Drums move air. A nightclub floor vibrates. A crowd reacting together creates a sensation that reaches the body as much as the ear. Technology is beginning to use that...

Entrepreneurship is usually sold with an appealing collection of words: freedom, flexibility, independence and being your own boss. Anyone who has actually run a business knows there are less glamorous words available too: cash flow, customers, risk, long hours and uncertainty. For disabled entrepreneurs, both descriptions can be true at exactly the same time. Self-employment...

There is a particular kind of bad design that most people never notice. A mascara tube that demands a firm grip to open. A small cap that becomes almost impossible to twist when your hands are painful. Two bottles that feel identical even though one contains shampoo and the other conditioner. A pump that requires...

For much of their short history, smart glasses have seemed like technology still searching for a reason to exist. They can take photographs without reaching for a phone, play music, answer questions, make calls and increasingly place artificial intelligence within a user’s field of experience. To some, that represents the next stage of personal computing....

AUGUST 2026 Disability conversations often focus on work, healthcare, transport and law. All of that matters. But so does play. So does leisure. So does the right to join friends, unwind, compete, explore and simply enjoy the culture of the day without unnecessary barriers. There is a habit, especially in serious policy circles, of treating...

AUGUST 2026 For years, digital accessibility lived in the corner reserved for specialists: important, but endlessly deferred. That era is beginning to close. As more of life moves online, accessibility is increasingly being treated not as a courtesy, but as part of basic service quality. There was a time when a badly designed website could...

JULY 2026 Housing conversations are usually dominated by price, location and size. Accessibility still arrives too late, often only after illness, injury or age forces the issue. That is beginning to change, and not a moment too soon. Most people do not think about accessibility when they first imagine a home. They think about light,...