Systemic changes are needed from government and industry, experts say. In the meantime, users are turning to DIY.

OX Engineering, a company based in Chiba Prefecture, is dedicated to manufacturing and selling equipment that improves the lives of the physically disabled, with a focus on wheelchairs. The company ...

Five people moved in tandem down a trail, connected by a wheelchair unlike any other. This hiking trail, popular with Bend, Ore., families, is a testing ground for inventor Geoff Babb. One ...

Lance Greathouse invents and builds elaborate%2C extraordinary and imaginative things%2C but his passion is electric wheelchairs and scooters In honor of his brother Brent%2C who died from a rare form ...

One in 200 people in East Africa need wheelchairs, but don’t yet have them. SafariSeat has developed an all-terrain, open source wheelchair that could allow those people to live their lives with more ...

Wheelchair users are calling long wait times for wheelchair repairs an enduring “crisis of equity” as lawmakers ponder whether to take up bills designed to make wheelchairs more reliable for those who ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It took Casey Moore, who relies on his power wheelchair, four months to get it ...