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.
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.”