Accessibility
These letters represent disability rights and public access.
What is ADA
In 1932 Harry C. Jennings and Herbert Everest Invented this folding portable device to allow independence and mobility.
What is the wheelchair?
This US President used a wheelchair due to polio but hid the extent of his paralysis from the public during his presidency.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Disability Independence Day.
What is July 26?
This landmark US Civil rights law was signed in 1990 to prohibit discrimination against individuals with disabilities
What is The American Disabilities Act (ADA)
Used internationally to indicate that the user is visually impaired or blind.
What is a white cane?
This famous animal science professor and autism advocate's life story was the subject of an award-winning HBO biopic.
Dr. Temple Grandin
International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
What is December 3rd?
The approximate average cost of most workplace accommodations made for employees with disabilities according to the Job Accommodations Network.
What is $500?
A stylized blue icon of a person sitting in a chair.
What is the international Symbol of Access? (also known as the wheelchair symbol)
This Major international Multi-sport event takes place in the same host city and immediately following every summer Olympic Games
What are the Paralympics?
This month is Low vision awareness month and the first week is white cane awareness week.
What is February?