More Than Voting Booths: Accessibility of Electoral Campaigns for People with Disabilities in Ontario

More than ramps: accessible health care for people with disabilities.

More hurdles: exercise for people with disabilities.

UK guidelines recommend that everyone, able-bodied or otherwise, should undertake 150 min of moderate exercise every week. Indeed, people with disabilities, who tend to have more sedentary lifestyles, might be well advised to exceed this level. Nonetheless, a survey shows that only 18% of the 11 million or so disabled people in the UK manage a single 30 min session of exercise every week (compa...

Accessibility to the Public Facilities: A Mean to Achieve Civil Rights of the People with Disabilities in Iran

Objectives: Civil rights may cover different aspects of citizens’ lives. All the members of the society should have equal access to the public facilities and public transportation system. Barriers and obstacles in society may limit the accessibility of these facilities to the disabled people. Methods: This article contains a part of the results in a phenomenological study of the Disability R...

RailGB: Using Open Accessibility Data to Help People with Disabilities

With the fast growth of Linked Data, many datasets have been made available for public access. However, with an increased number of elderly and people with disabilities becoming technologically knowledgeable, it has been noted that few applications have been developed for this population group using Linked Data. In this paper, we present RailGB, a linked-data driven mobile web application to pr...

eQuality: Web Accessibility by People With Cognitive Disabilities

eQuality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons With Cognitive Disabilities (Blanck, 2014a) examines the right under the Americans with Disabilities Act to web access for people with cognitive disabilities (intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, traumatic brain injury, and other conditions). This article continues that line of study examining the full and equal enjoyment (...