Every day, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides service to more than 45,000 flights and 2.9 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. And yet — commercial aviation is the only mode of transportation with no regulations allowing power wheelchair users to travel safely and with […]
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iCanConnect: Empowering the Deaf-Blind Community
Nearly 40 years ago in the summer of 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the last week of June as Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week, in honor of the famous deaf-blind advocate’s birthday on June 27, 1880. This blog rings in the annual celebration by highlighting iCanConnect, a program that would make Keller proud. Ensuring Widespread […]
The Roadmap to Accessible Workstations
Like so many other cities in America and across the globe, the COVID-19 pandemic left Indianapolis facing an unclear future. During the peak of this crisis, technology was our key to an increasingly closed-off world. To carve out a smooth path forward for Hoosiers of various backgrounds, The Indianapolis Public Library and Easterseals Crossroads are […]
Relaying the Opportunity for Deaf Independence
From the telegraph to rotary phones to landlines, email and texting, our methods of communication have evolved a great deal over the decades. These changes have been vital for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Just ask Greg Gantt, who has experienced the impact of these technological advancements firsthand not only as a […]
People with Disabilities Solve Equation for Success
People with disabilities make up the largest minority group in the nation. According to the CDC, one in four people in the United States have a disability. Yet just 17.9 percent of them were employed as of 2020, down from 19.3 percent in 2019 (per statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor). In comparison, 63.7 […]
A Perfect Dovetailing of INDATA and AgrAbility
Thanks to INDATA’s recently announced partnership with Indiana AgrAbility, Assistive Technology Technician Lisa Becker is embracing her childhood dreams more than ever before. Indiana AgrAbility is a USDA-sponsored program that assists farmers, ranchers and other agricultural workers with disabilities. Becker helps find and demonstrate assistive technology for these workers, whom she has deemed “the most […]