Rachel Strohm

728 days ago

“I’ll be confronted by spaces I’d like to enter, spaces I used to go before I was a wheelchair user, that are not accessible to me now,” says Segarra. “And in lieu of filing lawsuits, I’ll ask repeatedly, for years, for accessibility to be implemented, [only] for these requests to go completely ignored. The onus should not be on disabled people and their allies [to enforce the ADA], it should be enforced through inspection.”

30 Years after the ADA, It’s Time to Imagine a More Accessible Future

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On July 26, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law.