Tag: Access Israel

Ikea, in collaboration with Milbat and Access Israel organizations, launch: ThisAbles

Stuart Mitchell

Ikea Israel has launched the ThisAblesproject, this was established in collaboration with Milbat and Access Israel with the goal of developing and promoting well-designed, efficient and convenient design solutions for furniture and household utensils for people with disabilities. The venture brought together three organizations in order tofind and advance solutions that will offer anappropriate and dignified response to the household needs of quite a large population in Israel. Solutions include furniture that is customized to these needs, and thedevelopment of products that will help people with disabilities to use furniture…

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Access Israel Replaces disabled parking spot signs with the pictures of real people

Stuart Mitchell

We’ve probably seen it happen a zillion times and we’ve maybe even done it ourselves once or twice: parking in a spot for disabled people. Yeah, we’ve all seen it happen before: a car blitzing into a parking spot reserved for the disabled only for its driver to step out seconds later on two perfectly functioning legs. Sure, if you ask the driver he’ll probably have a whole battery of excuses to go with his blatant misbehavior and disrespect. Anything ranging from: “I’ll only be a second”, “I’m just picking…

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