Airbnb has transformed travel for millions, but people with disabilities are often left unsatisfied by the limited options for accessible accommodation, transport, and medical equipment. Accomable aims to fill this gap, letting them tailor trips that cater to their specific requirements.

Anyone who’s ridden the tube during rush hour knows it isn’t the place for conversations to flourish. With many commuters perceived as surly individuals, an American NHS worker has created a ‘Tube Chat’ badge to encourage discussion on the underground – to the horror of many Londoners.

Airbnb has transformed travel for millions, but people with disabilities are often left unsatisfied by the limited options for accessible accommodation, transport, and medical equipment. Accomable aims to fill this gap, letting them tailor trips that cater to their specific requirements.

Entertainment media have been prone to positioning disabled people as objects of pity by defining them solely in terms of their impairments. But comic book Department of Ability is looking to fight against the alienation that selective portrayal creates with a cast of disabled superheroes.