How to Find Accessible Trails for People with Disabilities

How to Find Accessible Trails for People with Disabilities

A guide to the apps, websites, and travel planning organizations that will help you find accessible trails and outdoor spaces for people with disabilities.
What Does Limited Mobility Mean?

What Does Limited Mobility Mean?

To create a society with fewer barriers to health and happiness for people with disabilities, we need to understand what it means to live with limited mobility.
Can a Walking Bike Work for my Disability or Injury?

Can a Walking Bike Work for my Disability or Injury?

Walking bikes can provide a viable alternative to wheelchairs for people with mobility issues, and enable you to continue living a healthy, active lifestyle. 
14 Ways to be a Better Ally to People with Disabilities

14 Ways to be a Better Ally to People with Disabilities

Talking to people with disabilities should not be any different than talking to people without disabilities. Disability does not define a person, it is a part of their life. And furthermore, an es...
Introducing Accessibility Advocate Melanie Gaunt

Introducing Accessibility Advocate Melanie Gaunt

Melanie has been a tireless advocate for then needs of people with disabilities for over ten years. Now she's bringing her skillset to the Alinker blog.
Neuroplasticity: How Our Brains Can Help Us Recover

Neuroplasticity: How Our Brains Can Help Us Recover

How a walking bike for people with disabilities and mobility issues can activate our brains, aid in recovery, and slow the progression of degenerative diseases
AccessNow Uses Crowdsourcing to Map Out Accessible Places Worldwide
Accessibility

AccessNow Uses Crowdsourcing to Map Out Accessible Places Worldwide

Maayan Ziv about her AccessNow app: “Our job, as a company, is to be descriptive and never prescriptive,” she says. “Our job is to provide people with insight, for them to make their own decisions ...
Staying Active with a Disability or Life-Altering Injury
Rehabilitation

Staying Active with a Disability or Life-Altering Injury

An active lifestyle promotes mental and physical well-being for people with disabilities. Sergio Robelto shares ways to stay active with limited mobility.
Social Isolation & Loneliness Among People with Disabilities
Sickcare / Health

Social Isolation & Loneliness Among People with Disabilities

People with disabilities face high degrees of loneliness compared to the non-disabled population. But through community-building, we can change that.