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Let’s talk about wheelchair accessibility.

Last year, one of my high school classmates and favorite journalists asked for a list of wheelchair-accessible restaurants and activities in the DMV. It was a general question on Twitter, and I volunteered to produce a running list of them. In my research, I’ve learned three things:

  • some phone numbers just give info about the restaurant or business without the option to talk to someone.

  • a lot of map app listings will show that a place is wheelchair-accessible when they're actually not.

  • most of the restaurants I've researched thus far do not say whether they're wheelchair-accessible.

I admit that even my blog posts before this didn’t share pertinent information like this. Moving forward, it’s one of the details I’m asking places so I can include that info. I think it would save people a great amount of time if restaurants’ websites stated this information. I also think that restaurants should include information that could impact people with other disabilities like how loud the music is or bright lights.

This week’s newsletter features the new (to the blog) Wheelchair-Accessible Restaurants & Activities guide and the newest blog post. It also includes travel articles related to the Washington, D.C. Metro Area.

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Warmly,

Kelci