This post is a combination of a life update from me, and sharing an experience that I hope might bring comfort to a fellow perspective future guide dog handler. As you can gather from the title, withdrawing from training isn’t how I, or anyone wants to imagine their guide dog training taking shape. …
Oh look at that, the 2026/27 football season is underway, and I’m back with yet another matchday blog post. I might be a little overexcited that the Women’s Super League is back. Women’s football has pitched itself in my life once again, and I’m not complaining. This season, I’m as hooked as ever – I’m…
Whether you’re disabled or not, you’ve probably seen the following before. A hotel describes itself as fully accessible. A venue says it’s fully accessible. A website proudly announces in its accessibility statement that it is fully accessible. The organiser of an event you want to attend tells you that it is fully accessible. In theory,…
There’s no doubt about it, disabled people are used to having to prove others wrong. Something I’ve said time and time again on here is that society often assumes that we can’t do something because we’re disabled. Those assumptions become barriers, and we spend so much of our lives pushing back against them, proving ourselves,…
It’s wild to think that blogging introduced me to my best friend Elin back in 2015. We were united through our lived experience, something I’ll forever be grateful for. 11 years of friendship later, we recently returned from our first girly holiday. We made memories we’ll treasure for a long time, and had experiences we…
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![There’s a phrase we hear far too often: “fully accessible”.
Hotels use it. Venues use it. Website developers use it. Event organisers use it.
On the surface, it sounds brilliant. But there’s no one size fits all approach to accessibility.
Because accessibility isn’t a box you can tick once and forget about. There isn’t a magic point where something becomes accessible to every single disabled person.
Our access needs are different. What works for one person might not work for another.
Rather than asking, “is it accessible?”
Ask: “Accessible for who?”
In my latest blog post, I’m exploring why “fully accessible” is a myth. Head to the link in my bio if you’d like to give it a read.
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