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Updates on the App

Hellloooo! As a recovering ski bum – okay, a recovering Après-ski bum – who spent years living in the Colorado mountains and working alongside some of the most amazing PTs, PTAs, OTs, STs, DRs, PAs, NPs, and RNs (did I forget any initials?!), plus some seriously elite athletes, I learned one thing: mountain life is magic. When you combine that with my roots in tourism, and then add accessibility to the mix? Be still my beating heart.

That’s exactly what’s happening with Roll Mobility, Teton Adaptive, and Jackson Hole, WY.

Jackson Hole is proving you don’t have to choose between wilderness and accessibility. Early champion Lindsey Ehinger and her team partnered with Roll Mobility and Teton Adaptive to turn this Wyoming town into our living lab for inclusive tourism. They hosted mapping events, packed the Roll app with more reviews than we ever dreamed of, and convinced local businesses that accessibility isn’t an add-on, it’s an asset. Her enthusiasm is contagious,what can we say?

The result is wheelchair-friendly trails, ADA campsites, sensory kits at the airport, and restaurants with step-free entrances. The Jackson Hole accessibility guide even calls out the Roll app for its detailed ratings on entrances, elevators, and seating. We at Roll believe this is a blueprint for how tech and tourism can join forces so everyone can play outside. Since you are reading this I’m going to go ahead and assume you have already downloaded the app, but just in case you haven’t or haven’t opened it lately – check out Jackson Hole (it’s a fun little hotspot on our map), leave a review if you visit, and let’s keep nudging more destinations to follow Jackson Hole’s lead! Download it here www.rollmobility.com (or wherever you get your apps).

👩‍🦽 Crip News You Can Use 👨‍🦼 

Accessi-stories From Around the World

Oftentimes, this section is me being awestruck by innovation in the science and tech world. The kind of “the future is now” energy that makes tech feel miraculous and makes the tiny little trekkie inside me sing. But every so often, a piece gives me pause.

This essay, written by Jackie Leach Scully, (a professor of Bioethics and director of the Disability Innovation Institute at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) gave me one of those moments. She reminds us that AI has the potential to revolutionize assistive technology, from robotic aides to auto-captioning, image recognition, and beyond. But just as in the physical world, the digital world is still built with barriers and inherent biases. Disabled people aren’t just missing from the data – they’re missing from the rooms where those datasets are built. 

The phrase “nothing about us without us” hits especially hard here. Developers and researchers rarely receive training on accessibility or inclusion, and ethics courses in AI mostly stop at gender or race. Disability is still an afterthought, if it’s thought of at all. And when disabled people are included, it’s often through what Liz Jackson calls “disability dongles”: well-intentioned but unnecessary gadgets (like AI-enabled sign-language gloves) created for problems no one actually had. I also see this in gerontology, a design team unveils a “solution for elders,” for a problem that never existed. A bias not of malice, but of absence of critical thinking. 

AI can be transformative, but it requires the nuance of a lived human experience.

😄 Wheel-y Good News 😁 

Good Folks Doin’ Good Thangs

We’ve said it before and we will say it again, nay, sing it (remember, recovering musical theatre nerd 👋 ) “Hey, ho, universal design is the way to go!” So let’s sing it from the rafters – accessibility isn’t an afterthought – it’s the foundation. And science labs across the country are finally catching on. From the University of Kansas to Purdue, Oregon State, and beyond, a wave of accessible research spaces is reimagining how (and who) gets to do science. Think adjustable-height lab benches, tactile maps for geological samples, color-contrast safety signage, wheelchair-friendly pathways, and adaptive tools that make fieldwork possible for scientists with disabilities. These changes are more than just a fancy makeover. It’s the model for what real inclusion in STEM looks like. And echoing our thoughts (and Ms. Scully’s), accessibility shouldn’t stop at the lab door, or be the product of what comes out of the lab; it should be built into every level of discovery.

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⚖️ Policy & Prejudice 🤫 

Keeping the ol’ checks & balances in check

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Heeeeere’s Johnny! 

While everyone was distracted by pumpkin‑spice everything season, the current administration got into the Halloween spirit early and cosplayed as Leatherface and Michael Myers and proceeded to slash 465 staff across six offices in the Department of Education and then disappeared like Casper, the not-so-friendly-ghost on the folks who run Title I and IDEA grant programs. Over at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, The Purge was so complete that nearly every employee who safeguards $15 billion for 7.5 million kids was shown the chair a la Sweeny Todd (The Demon Barber of Fleet Street). Not to be outdone, officials pulled their best Jason impressions and axed 89 research contracts worth $900 million because apparently, evidence‑based practice is as cool as Norman Bates was in school. Meanwhile, the administration has been treating “diversity” like it is a mutant zombie virus, threatening to yank funding from any school still using DEI programs and even rolling out an “End DEI” snitch portal so parents can live out their Mean Girls fantasies and report curricula they don’t like. The bloody icing on this horror picture? Pennsylvania and several other states warned that November SNAP benefits won’t be paid because Congress couldn’t be bothered to pass a budget. Guess they are too busy taking notes from all the new horror films. It’s easy to run screaming from the theatre, and all of this certainly makes me want to hide under a blanket and put my hands over my ears, but rights and safety nets can vanish when we disengage. We have to turn on the light. Our voices matter more than ever; our votes decide whether public schools thrive, inclusive classrooms exist, and neighbors eat. In the face of macabre chaos and trouble, feel-good action starts at the ballot box (and in mutual aid) and thanks to our friends over at Feel Good Action, they’ve made the process very easy and support you along the way. Check your status and make a plan to vote:

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