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2. International Symbol of Access - Wikipedia

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   In the late '60s, with the rise of universal design, there grew a need for a symbol to identify accessible facilities. [3] In 1968, Norman Acton, President of Rehabilitation International (RI), tasked Karl Montan, chairman of the International Commission of Technology and Accessibility (ICTA), to develop a symbol as a technical aid and present in the group's 1969 World Congress convention in ...

3. Mark Lane (broadcaster) - Wikipedia

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   Born in Hertfordshire in 1969 [2] he is also a landscape designer, and the UK's first BBC gardening presenter who uses a wheelchair. [3] Mark was born with spina bifida and, in 2000, he had a car accident that led to operations on his spine. Mark uses a wheelchair full time. [4]

4. Wheelchair - Wikipedia

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   Wheelchair. A man with a disability sitting in a wheelchair. A wheelchair is a mobilized form of chair using 2 or more wheels, a footrest, and an armrest usually cushioned. It is used when walking is difficult or impossible to do due to illnesses, injury, disabilities, or age-related health conditions. Wheelchairs provide mobility, postural ...

5. Motability - Wikipedia

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   The garden included a Motability car, an adapted Renault Clio, to symbolize disabled people gaining access to the remotest parts of the countryside. In October 2006, the Scheme hit the two million vehicles mark and Jeffrey Sterling commented: "Family life revolves around the disabled person so if you make someone mobile you don't help two ...

6. Rescue centre sets up garden for disabled hedgehogs - AOL

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   October 16, 2024 at 3:33 AM. Hedgehogs have great fun "rolling about in the mud" [LUKE DEAL/BBC] A rescue centre has set up a new garden area specifically designed to help disabled hedgehogs who ...

7. Litter (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   Litter (vehicle) A Turkish sedan chair (tahtırevan), 1893. The Japanese Princess Mune's 18th-century palanquin (norimono), with an arabesque design in maki-e lacquer. A late-18th-century English sedan chair at Eaton Hall. The litter is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of people.