Accessible travel photos at Flickr
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application that allows people to share their favorite photos with others from around the world and to create online communities around topics of interest.
Rolling Rains, a long time advocate of accessible travel for people with disability, has set up a new group to share accessible travel photos.
The group is titled Rolling Rains - Travel with a Disability and uses the free Flickr tool as a resource, combining free photo galleries, tags, and social networking focussed around the topic of travel and disability.
Travel photos from travelers with disabilities will be a staple but hotel, resort, bed and breakfast owners, accessible home swappers or architects with Universal Design and Visitability solutions to share are equally welcome in the community. Share your best practices and position yourself as an industry leader.
This Flickr group gives travelers with disabilities, their travel companions, friends, and allies of the disability community a place to post travel photos. You don't need to snap a shot of every curb cut or Braille road sign - aesthetics counts - but somehow weave in tips about accessibility as you tell your story.
The combination of photos, first hand commentary, and the ability to contact the poster provides a unique and ever-changing consumer-level guide for the disability community on where to go for a good time.
Remember, your home town may not seem all that exotic to you but your photos and insider knowledge might be just what a visitor with a disability needs to know before they visit. Get creative! Post your best shots.
Photos are language neutral and group members are international so feel free to comment in whatever language suits you best.
Contributions are welcome and anyone with an interest in accessible travel is invited to contribute their own photos, discussion group posts and feedback.
Update: 11 August 2006
A similar site for sharing access travel videos has just been set up at YouTube. The YouTube and Flickr sites are both integrated into the Squidoo Inclusive Travel Access web resource maintained by Rolling Rains, and can be put to use by others in this network.
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