Helping to bring the wonders of the Adirondacks … to everyone

 

Accessible Adirondack Tourism focuses on tourism in the Adirondacks for people with disabilities,
their families, friends and companions.

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Together, We Can Ensure the Adirondacks are More Welcoming for Everyone.

12 Parks in the Village of Saranac Lake
Assessed and Added

Accessible Adirondack Tourism is pleased to announce that we have completed the ADA assessment for all 12 of the Village of Saranac Lake’s parks. The final document is 160 pages in length, includes 189 images, contains 19,644 words, and features 12 video links documenting a wheelchair user navigating the Riverwalk. Together, these elements provide a comprehensive evaluation of accessibility within the Village. If you want to take a look at it you can download it from our website. Videos can be downloaded by clicking on the links within the Assessment document, or by going to the Saranac Lake Riverwalk page on this website. The project supports both community accessibility and regional tourism by ensuring that everyone can enjoy the beauty, culture, and hospitality the Adirondacks have to offer. We applaud the Village of Saranac Lake for it’s openness to the assessment, and for ensuring people with disabilities can make informed choices on where to visit.

The Adirondacks are not just a wilderness wonderland, but is comprised of communities, just like yours, that are filled with caring and compassionate people. Wherever you may live in the Adirondack region there is a sense of community over this vast 6-million acres of beauty that gives us cause to feel as if we’re all neighbors, because we are.

But we’re not just stewards of the land, we’re stewards of our communities and the visitors who come, if only for a little while, to get a glimpse of the mountains, forests, lakes and starry nights we call home.

Unfortunately, there is an entire group of people, people with various disabilities, including our ageing population, that find it challenging to visit us. Maybe they can’t find where to go because of inaccessible websites, or perhaps the places they want to visit won’t accomodate a wheelchair. But there is certainly hope and that hope is – you.

Information regarding accessibility tourism is so vital that the United Nations has listed “Unavailable information on accessible facilities, services, equipment rentals and tourist attractions” as one of the major barriers to international tourism.

Just by visiting this website you’ve become more aware of how important accessibility for people with disabilities is. If you can, please support our efforts and thank you.

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What We Do

Accessible Adirondack Tourism provides free ADA and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (‘WCAG’) assessments, with the results appearing within this single-source website, for people with disabilities to locate recreational, dining, lodging, retail, outdoor and other accessible resources within the 14 County Adirondack region. We also offer organizations and municipalities resources and education to become more accessible, advocacy and awareness campaigns, and promotion of locations that are accessible to people with various disabilities within our website.

Resources

Providing reliable informational resources to people with disabilities who live, work, visit and play in the Adirondack region. By including accessible features of locations, and websites and social media pages that are accessible to the visually impaired, our website our users can be assured that they can plan their trip with accessibility in mind and that the accomodations they need will be available to them.

Education

Many locations want to be accessible for various reasons and some don’t know where to start. A significant part of our mission is to provide education to businesses and municipalities within the Adirondack region on what accessibility means and what standards they are required to comply with for their physical locations, websites and social media pages.

Advocacy

Our work advocates for people with disabilities by encouraging best accessibility practices by businesses, municipalites and other Adirondack organizations.

Awareness

When envisioning people with disabilities most think of wheelchairs and assisted mobility. However, there are disabilities that are all too often overlooked such as color blindness, cataracts, and carpal tunnel syndrome. We provide public awareness in the hope that more people will consider how their organizations can better serve people with disabilities.

Promotion

By promoting accessible locations, websites and social media pages we bring greater marketing exposure to Adirondack businesses that support the ideals of ensuring accessibility for everyone.

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With Your Help, We're Making The Adirondacks More
Accessible for Everyone

Accessible Adirondack Tourism, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that is authorized to accept donations that are tax deductable to our donors.

We're not just a website. We're also an online and in person educational resource for businesses, organizations and municipalities within the Adirondack region to assist them in their goals of being more accessible to people with all kinds of disabilities.

We offer organizations assistance with learning about how to make their locations, websites and social media pages available to everyone and we need your generous support to continue our mission.

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