{"id":5223,"date":"2023-07-25T10:44:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2023-07-25T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:45:08","slug":"last-friday-of-the-month-accessibility-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/last-friday-of-the-month-accessibility-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Friday of the Month: Accessibility Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Accessibility Matters<\/h2>\n<h3>Imagine everything is accessible to all \u2013<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u201c<em>You may say I&#8217;m a dreamer, but I&#8217;m not the only one<\/em>\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Lennon<\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\">You probably have encountered obstacles when traveling, shopping at a store, or eating out.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>We are excited for you to meet two local trailblazers who are changing the world of accessibility in our community and beyond.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>Please join us for a virtual presentation with<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><strong>Claire Wellbeloved-Stone\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Joe Jamison<\/strong>.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><strong>Claire<\/strong>\u00a0is the Vice\u00a0President of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cac39caa3ad664817a77fa3ee&amp;id=a3ae597d3f&amp;e=02405a715e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Blue Trunk Foundation<\/a>, dedicated to providing information about accessibility for people to travel in their own city and around the world regardless of their age, disability, or health conditions.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><strong>Joe<\/strong>\u00a0is the CEO and Founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cac39caa3ad664817a77fa3ee&amp;id=72709ea393&amp;e=02405a715e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\">Visitable<\/a>, and works on listing and certifying businesses to make going out in public fun, easy, and possible for those with disabilities.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><em>\u201cWe need to make every single thing accessible to every single person with a disability.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Stevie Wonder<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><u>When<\/u>: July 28, 2023<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><u>Time<\/u>: 12:15 PM &#8211; 12:45 PM<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><u>Where<\/u>:\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=cac39caa3ad664817a77fa3ee&amp;id=09c513cac1&amp;e=02405a715e\">Zoom<\/a><\/strong><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><u><\/u><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><u>Meeting ID<\/u>: 835 7750 9205<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><u>Passcode<\/u>: \u00a0666813<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We look forward seeing you.<br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/><br aria-hidden=\"true\" \/>PS: We are still working on the name for our &#8220;Last Friday of the Month&#8221; series. And if you have an interest in a specific topic, please let us know.<\/p>\n<figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"b446602\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Blue Trunk\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NTIyNCwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3d3dy50aGVicmlkZ2VsaW5lLm9yZ1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyM1wvMDdcL0JsdWUtVHJ1bmsucG5nIiwic2xpZGVzaG93IjoiYjQ0NjYwMiJ9\" href='https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blue-Trunk.png'><img width=\"190\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blue-Trunk.png\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blue-Trunk.png 190w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blue-Trunk-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blue-Trunk-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"b446602\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Visitable1\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NTIyOCwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL3d3dy50aGVicmlkZ2VsaW5lLm9yZ1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyM1wvMDdcL1Zpc2l0YWJsZTEucG5nIiwic2xpZGVzaG93IjoiYjQ0NjYwMiJ9\" href='https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Visitable1.png'><img width=\"1820\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Visitable1.png\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Visitable1.png 1820w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Visitable1-300x97.png 300w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Visitable1-1024x331.png 1024w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Visitable1-768x249.png 768w, https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Visitable1-1536x497.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accessibility Matters Imagine everything is accessible to all \u2013\u201cYou may say I&#8217;m a dreamer, but I&#8217;m not the only one\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0John Lennon You probably have encountered obstacles when traveling, shopping at a store, or eating out.We are excited for you to meet two local trailblazers who are changing the world of accessibility in our community and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5234,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}