Disabled designer wins $500,000 to develop first intelligent manual wheelchair
A disabled entrepreneur and product designer is set to develop a revolutionary prototype of the…
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A year on from new taxi discrimination laws… and not a single prosecution
Local authorities have failed to prosecute a single taxi-driver for discriminating against wheelchair-users under new…
Finding a wheelchair ‘is expensive, time-consuming and rarely straightforward’
Choosing and funding a wheelchair is expensive and time-consuming, and often results in the purchase…
Councils ‘should be shamed into action’ on taxi access laws
A disability activist has called on disabled people to shame their local councils into action,…
Setback for taxi wheelchair access, after councils snub new laws
Local authorities are refusing to take simple measures that will provide new legal protection from…
‘Tens of thousands of children could gain from new wheelchair laws’
Tens of thousands of disabled children could benefit from a change in the law that…