Inaccessible Cities

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How would you get around a megacity if you couldn’t walk, see signs or hear cars passing by?

More than one billion people — approximately 15 percent of the global population — experience some form of disability. Unlike other marginalised groups, anyone can develop a physical disability because of an accident, illness, or simply, old age.

In Inaccessible Cities, three women living with disabilities — Rebecca Lamorte, a former New York City Council candidate, Olajumoke Olajide, an athlete from Lagos, and Nidhi Goyal, an activist and comedian from Mumbai, show us how a lack of accessible public transport and infrastructure prevent them from fully and independently participating in society.

Some 68 percent of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050, up from today’s 55 percent. In order to ensure disabled people are not marginalised and excluded as the world’s urban areas grow, this interactive web experience highlights some of the systemic, legal and structural challenges of living in cities for people with disabilities.

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This interactive is fully accessible to the hearing and visually impaired and other people with disabilities. 

Inaccessible Cities is one of the first interactive digital news experiences to accomplish this using the AA web accessibility guidelines. Watch the video to learn how we made it happen: