There are far more uses for smart phone and tablet apps that Flappy Bird and Facebook.In fact, many apps are now helping to solve everyday problems for people with mobility, visual and hearing impairments. Here are our top ten: 1. Siri and other virtual assistants. For less able iPhone users Siri can be a really…
Thanks to The American Lieutenant for this review of Trattoria Al Sile in Treviso: We were on our way back to Treviso airport after skiing in Arabba, in the Dolomites and a friend of ours, an artist from Malta called Pawlu Carabonara, advised us to have lunch at this restaurant. We booked (advisable) a table for…
The last couple of weeks have been manic with people waking up from hibernation and needing everything yesterday. So I missed last week’s wrap but here’s what’s been happening: In our last wrap I mentioned I was going to Arsenal to see Man Utd and I’d arranged to go for a pre-match meal. It was…
The American Lieutenant has supplied us with this review of the accessibility at Le Grand Colbert in Paris. Close to the Louvre, Le Grand Colbert is named after a famous minister of the Sun King, Louis XIV, who owned the building and was something of a seventeenth century foodie. The brasserie is now such a…
It’s been a while since our last update on developments in the world of wheelchairs. Plenty has happened since then, so we thought it would be a good time to take a look at some of the latest mobility related stories and quickly round up what’s been going on. The first thing to mention, since…
It’s time for another issue of our popular series of postcards from Indochina. Ann, our itinerant access expert, has now moved on from Cambodia and into neighbouring Vietnam. She’s headed straight for Ho Chi Minh City – the metropolis formerly known as Saigon – ‘Nam’s biggest city: How much more evocative is the name Saigon than Ho…
The Punch Room at The Edition Hotel, Berners Street, London by friend of BBS, Ann (this was before she jetted to Cambodia & Vietnam reporting on accessibility via her ‘postcards’, click here to view.): While Fiona raves about the Lobby Bar in The Edition Hotel… I have to put a word in for the Punch…
Despite planning to make their local areas accessible the bureaucrats, maintenance workers and builders of the world often end up making matters worse for less able people in their communities. Due to a lack of consulting disabled people during the design process, failing to carry out the work properly or just plain old fashioned stupidity,…
Time for another in our series of postcards from Asia in which Ann, our most adventurous lieutenant, has been taking a look at the accessibility out in the east. Today Ann has departed the Angkor Wat at Siem Reap and moved on towards Battambang in northwest Cambodia: Battambang is 3 hours from Siem Reap and…