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Blog Highlights
Accessibility
Are We There Yet?
by Angela Van Etten
JANUARY 29, 2024
The impatient query of children traveling in the back seat of a car—Are We There Yet?—can just as easily be applied to Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance. Thirty-two years after the January 26, 1992 ADA effective date, the answer is “no, we are not there yet.” Violations abound.
Relationships
Marriage Vows and Valentines
by Angela Van Etten
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Our love journey did not begin on Valentine’s Day. In February 1981 we didn’t even know each other. Rather we made our love commitment in marriage vows on October 31, 1981:
We will stand by each other no matter what happens, respecting each other’s
Accessibility
MAKING PUBLIC COMMENTS: Time Wasted or Well Spent?
by Angela Van Etten
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Hope for people with dwarfism was rekindled on November 16, 1999. The federal Access Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to updates the ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG). The embers ignited because the NPRM included a proposal to break the six-inch reach barrier in
Celebrations
DWARFISM TRILOGY COMPLETE: Recurring Pattern of Three Emerges
by Angela Van Etten
SEPTEMBEr 27, 2021
After 33 years, my dwarfism trilogy is complete. Three books in a little more than three decades about God’s three gifts of grace in my life—faith, hope, and love. As it happens, the word “three” has emerged as a thread in this cradle to retirement memoir series.