ADA Sign Depot Blog — ADA People
10 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Someone Who Uses a Wheelchair
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on May 24, 2014
“You’re Really Pretty for Someone in a Wheelchair.” Yes. People actually say this. There’s this huge misconception that people in wheelchairs are unattractive. Well spinal cord injuries and other disabilities don’t discriminate against attractive people.
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Prankster Targets Jerks Parking In Spots Reserved For People With Disabilities
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on May 24, 2014
The guy in the video sprayed the disabled sign — which the drivers had ignored — on the hoods and trunks of several cars using water-soluble spray paint. The prankees, however, did not know the paint would be so easily removed and were unsurprisingly less than thrilled upon finding their vehicles.
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Thirty-nine million people in the world are blind, and the majority lost their sight due to curable and preventable diseases. But how do you test and treat people who live in remote areas, where expensive, bulky eye equipment is hard to come by? TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous demos a smartphone app and cheap hardware that might help.
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The only fully-accessible home ever designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright is set to open to the public as a museum.
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