Universal Design applied by the travel and hospitality industry is the foundation of inclusive travel. The destination may be a quiet beach or an adrenaline boosted white water trip.
This site gathers resources that make mobility easier for travelers and their companions who do not always find that generic accommodations and transport meet their needs.
The Rolling Rains Report
Universal Design, Travel, & Disability
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Photos from the Rolling Rains Flickr Group
Books on Inclusive Travel
Full Motion Travel
The Seven Principles of Universal Design
The Foundation of Inclusive Tourism
For many people to enjoy travel infrastructure and destinations must intentionally be made inclusive. Universal Design ("invisible accessibility") is the tool to make that happen. Adopted worldwide the Principles of Universal Design are:
1. Equitable Use: The design does not disadvantage or stigmatize any group of users.
2. Flexibility in Use: The design accommodates a wide range of individual preferences and abilities.
3. Simple, Intuitive Use: Use of the design is easy to understand, regardless of the user's experience, knowledge, language skills, or current concentration level.
4. Perceptible Information: The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user's sensory abilities.
5. Tolerance for Error: The design minimizes hazards and the adverse consequences of accidental or unintended actions.
6. Low Physical Effort: The design can be used efficiently and comfortably, and with a minimum of fatigue.
7. Size and Space for Approach & Use: Appropriate size and space is provided for approach, reach, manipulation, and use, regardless of the user's body size, posture, or mobility.
1. Equitable Use: The design does not disadvantage or stigmatize any group of users.
2. Flexibility in Use: The design accommodates a wide range of individual preferences and abilities.
3. Simple, Intuitive Use: Use of the design is easy to understand, regardless of the user's experience, knowledge, language skills, or current concentration level.
4. Perceptible Information: The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user's sensory abilities.
5. Tolerance for Error: The design minimizes hazards and the adverse consequences of accidental or unintended actions.
6. Low Physical Effort: The design can be used efficiently and comfortably, and with a minimum of fatigue.
7. Size and Space for Approach & Use: Appropriate size and space is provided for approach, reach, manipulation, and use, regardless of the user's body size, posture, or mobility.
Inclusive Travel Links
- Travel Blog at [with]TV
- Biweekly posts on travel and disability
- Emerging Horizons: Accessible travel information for wheelchair users and slow walkers
- Accessible Travel News. We're a consumer-oriented publication filled with information and minus the advertising. Featuring information for travelers who use wheelchairs or are slow walkers.
- Rolling Rains Report:
- A running dialogue on travel, disability and universal design.
- Get Around Guide -- the blog
- A look at news relating to travel by people with disabilities by Darren Hillock.
- Broken Clay Journal
- The art of intermittent disability.
- Blog de Viajes Foros
- The Forum section of an excellent blog on travel in Spanish with a global community of commentators. Primo!
- Jimmy Goddard
- In August 2004 Jimmy had an accident while rock-climbing in Wales. This website is in support of his recovery.
- Pushing Higher
- The Mission: "Through extreme endeavor and close teamwork to successfully undertake a supreme challenge and thus extend the boundaries of paraplegic adventurous pursuits."
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