Accessibility
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Businesses need to strive for more than accessibility. They need to work at being more welcoming to people with disabilities.
July is Disability Pride Month. The latest annual Disability Equality Index Report on disability inclusion at major corporations jus came out. And on July 26, 2022, people with disabilities across the U.S. will celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
While the ADA is still a source of hope and pride — a remarkable example of what disabled people and their allies can achieve in the public policy sphere — each anniversary tends to raise similarly mixed feelings of pride, frustration, and determination in the disability community. It also raises some of the same questions that prompted the ADA in the first place: “Why are so many places still inaccessible to us?” and, “Why do so many supposedly accessible places still feel so…
