Travel Resource

Airbnb’s New Adapted Category Offers Beautiful Design and Verified Access

Airbnb has debuted a new Adapted homes category that lets you browse a variety of unique homes across the world that have verified step-free access and dedicated accessibility features. Many of the homes are beautiful and fun: There’s a castle in Spain, treehouses in Brazil and Alabama, and a dome house in North Carolina, to name a few. The listings include floor plans and measurements so you can make sure properties work for you.  

Products

Ki Mobility Rogue2: A Lightweight and Highly Adjustable Manual Wheelchair

Ki Mobility has released the Rogue2, a lightweight, customizable manual wheelchair for both new and experienced wheelchair users. The aluminum-frame chair weighs 10.6 pounds and has several features — including adjustable caster housings, indexed rear seat height adjustment and a reclinable backrest — designed to make it simple to dial in your positioning.  

12 Products to Make Every Room in Your House More Accessible

Here’s a collection of the products our Consumer Guide contributors recommend for making your home a little easier to manage. There’s a voice-controlled thermostat, a variety of helpful door-openers, an easy-access bathtub, a side-opening oven and more.  

Pro Tips

A Chef Reinvents Thanksgiving as a Wheelchair User

Take a peek inside the kitchen of Chuck Sansone, a wheelchair user and former corporate chef, as he cooks a mouthwatering and complex array of Thanksgiving dishes for 30 friends and family members. Sansone says you can make delicious meals with less labor by doctoring pre-prepped foods — like frozen vegetables, store-bought sauces and leftovers — and he shares one of his favorite holiday recipes. 

Dreaming Big About Little Spaces

Regan Linton used to dream about living in a stone castle, until the realities of typically boring wheelchair-accessible apartments put a damper on her fun. Then she visited a wheelchair user in Japan with a tiny, whimsical apartment, designed entirely around her needs and priorities. Linton realized it’s not always about the space, or the size, but how you design your world within it.