Looking for wheelchair accessible things to do in London? Then this guide to visit London as a wheelchair user is what you need to make the most of your trip.
Nothing like accessible closet space! Matt Barkley, director of the county’s Disability Services Planning and Development, tries out the closet reacher.
These disability travel agents have first-hand knowledge and are great options for helping you book your next amazingly accessible trip.
Explore how to protect door frames from wheelchair damage. As a veteran caregiver, I'll help you with solutions for frame longevity and beauty.
Gondolas4all has opened up the city to wheelchair users.
We went glamping with Experience Freedom in Cumbria, Lake District. Here's my Troutbeck Head review of staying in their wheelchair accessible glamping pod with a wetroom.
Learn how to make your home wheelchair accessible. These tips and tricks can help to improve your quality of life and allow you to live independently.
With many new products and styles on the market today, you can to design a wheelchair accessible home that is functional and beautiful.
The Terry S7 SR Inclined Platform Stair Lift is the ideal solution for wheelchair and disabled access on straight staircases.
Taking a vacation as an able-bodied person takes planning, but as a quadriplegic, well, it is way more complicated! I broke my neck in 2010 and had not
Sophie Morgan, TV presenter and Fine & Able ambassador. We are absolutely delighted to be working alongside TV presenter, disability rights advocate, artist, and adventurer, Sophie Morgan, to show the world that accessible design doesn't have to look clinical. Instead, it can be bursting with personality, colour and style. “For those of us with access needs, so often our homes are made to look and feel like hospitals, and personally, I’m over it. It’s time for an inclusion revolution!” says Sophie. Take a peek at how we transformed Sophie's bathroom in this truly stunning before and after... The before Sophie's bathroom was the type that is so often built as standard in accessible flats: meeting minimum access standards, but full of clinical-looking products and grey plastic. Sophie's bathroom before the Fine & Able treatment Inspired by her travels, Sophie had worked hard decorating the rest of her home beautifully. The bathroom felt out-of-place in comparison, but Sophie was limited by what she could achieve with the uninspiring accessible products she had previously found on the market.
Looking to climb The O2 in a wheelchair? Read this detailed review of the Up at The O2 Wheelchair Climb experience. Find out how accessible it is, what to expect during the climb, and why it's a must-do wheelchair accessible thing to do in London.
A wheelchair-friendly house plan will make your life a lot easier, especially if you or a loved one has a physical disability. With the right
Fashion-forward clothes for wheelchair users, along with some sage advice so you can be runway-ready.
Accessible design is a lot more than just a building trend: it's a necessity. Making sure that everyone can access spaces regardless of their physical abilities is just a no-brainer. Proponents of "universal design," as it's called, are calling for architects, urban planners, builders and interi ...
Looking to climb The O2 in a wheelchair? Read this detailed review of the Up at The O2 Wheelchair Climb experience. Find out how accessible it is, what to expect during the climb, and why it's a must-do wheelchair accessible thing to do in London.
In my last post discussing the importance of the fashion industry showing their garments on models sat down as well as standing I promised I would let you know some of my favourite outfits to…
She's kicking of FFORA with the essentials, to help make daily life for wheelchair users easy and chic. She's released a multi-use wheelchair-attachable dock, that can clip onto her versatile leather bag (offered in two sizes and five colors) and a cupholder.
Planning a trip? Make sure the city you're visiting can accommodate all your needs. Check out our list of the most wheelchair accessible cities.
How accessible London truly is? An honest description of the accessibility of London's transportation network heer
For many women who became disabled through accident or illness, or who were born with a physical disability, the unfulfilled lifelong dream of having a child becomes yet one more loss. This should not be the case. This is a challenge that needs to be examined collectively by society, and overcome in order to give these women an equal opportunity to become the great mothers they are fully capable of being.
Yoga is meant as a universal practice for everyone. Although, in the Westernized world, is often reduced to an acrobatic physical practice reserved for the young, able-bodied, and wealthy. Having access to practices like yoga,
Accessibility in urban planning is a vitally important feature of any civilized society - everyone, regardless of their mobility, should be able to access and enjoy public facilities. Crappy-designed accessibility for people in wheelchairs, for example, sends a pretty insulting message: "We added this feature because someone told us we had to, but it's not important enough that we put any effort into making sure it actually helps."
The Carbon Black (pictured) is manufactured in Bicester, Oxfordshire, which is known as Formula One's Silicon Valley because of the number of teams based in the area.
In the early 1970s, wheelchair users, Michael Pachovas and his friends, poured cement to create makeshift ramps at curbs in Berkeley, California. They simply wanted people to know getting on a curb…
After a tragic motorcycle accident, a couple renovate their home to meet new needs, while also launching a small business to assist other individuals with designing beautiful, wheelchair-accessible spaces.
Are you wondering how to get a wheelchair up a flight of stairs? I've got you covered! Here are the 5 easy steps so you can climb the stairs safely!
Visiting London and need a wheelchair-accessible hotel? Here’s our list of the best hotels in London that are wheelchair accessible.
These affordable projects can make your kitchen more wheelchair accessible if you or someone you live with is a wheelchair user. Lowering outlets, adding a ramp into the kitchen, and removing cabinets under the sink can make a kitchen a lot easier to use for someone in a wheelchair.
We all know that words can heal, just as they can hurt. The same goes with asking questions. Sometimes even the most innocent ones, given the particular circumstances, like a simple “who are you?” and “why wouldn’t you stand up straight for a photo?” can hit us in the bones.
Dressing with disabilities can be challenging. From body stiffness to painful flair-ups, headaches, skin sensitivity, dexterity challenges, mobility challenges, design limitations and so much more. This is why I adore Zappos Adaptive (ZA) it's a one-stop-shop for healthwear, footwear, and clothing designed with disability in mind.
Most things are harder when you have a disability. I've shared my tips for days out as a wheelchair user to make going out that little bit easier.
A few years before I met my husband, I wrote A LIST. On it, I noted all of the things I was looking for in a partner, namely my forever partner. I folded up the three pages, put them at the back of my journal. Planned to offer the list to the Moon, and see what happened. Real talk, I ended up offering the list to my washing machine first, transferred from my journal to a sweater with pockets. The list then resembled gloop, but I remembered what was on it. On my first date with my husband, I swear, little things on THE LIST. That no one would know. Neither did this first date dude. Because I wanted a second date. These days, he knows about THE LIST. We’ve even added to it, crossed things out, laughed about it. I believe if you write down what you want, the Universe/the Moon will work on it with you. Even if the laundry gets it first. And so, regular readers will know that we are looking for a house and planning to move back to the city. There haven’t been any updates on that because we haven’t found one. I’m frustrated […]
