If you run a website or know of a website that you feel should be included in this list please contact me. Please note I won’t include large medical supply websites without being given a good reason and won’t respond to automated link exchange requests.
Wheelchair Supply Sites
Websites where you can purchase wheelchairs and other products online that are highly discounted compared to the price you pay when you pay directly from the manufacturer
Sportaid – Highly recommended. I have had good experience with these people. They have a wide range of products and prompt delivery. Don’t ask them for any advice about products or measuring as they will not be able to help you in that regard.
Supplies Central – Primarily a casting supply website.
USA Tech Guide – The BEST site to find reviews for most wheelchair models and cushions.
Sport – Mobility - UK based, sells, buys, and refurbishes wheelchairs at very reasonable prices.
Disability Related Sites
Yes, You Can! - an online guide to self-care for persons with SCI. Excellent and very detailed.
Wildkat Magazine – This is a great website with resources, advice and videos for people with disabilities. It’s main focus is encouraging people with disabilities to lead an active, full life rather than waiting around for a cure.
Wheels on the Summit – A personal page of Sandy Lahmann, an athlete who has MS. Her articles about disability and disability etiquette are excellent and very revealing.
Disability Is Natural – A lot of articles that see disability as a natural part of life. Kathy Snow calls for inclusion, change of our attitude and thinking.
A Celebration of Wheels – A website with a lot of general reading on various wheelchair users etc. “The only way those people are confined is without a wheelchair”
The Nth Degree – A great selection of T-shirts that celebrate diversity, make people think and make them laugh.
A Ragged Edge Magazine – So many articles, so little time. The magazine that talks about a life with disability as it really is.
DOJ’s ADA Standards for Accessible Design (2010) - Building standards for USA. This is the place to go to see if the parking, a bathroom or a restaurant is up to a code.
ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines – Building Standards in USA for federal facilities.
Beyond My Wheelchair – Painting is Joe Bishop’s voice. Let the colours of sunset calm you, let the sunrise fill you with energy, let the person in a wheelchair stuck in a bottle make you think.
BBC Ouch – plenty of good reads. Start with this entry that many of us will easily relate to. It talks about the wheelchair choice or as the author’s friend summarised it: “It shouldn’t even matter whether you choose to use the wheelchair because you just enjoy it more than walking. It’s your choice.”
Devotee Sites
Devguide – The place to go for DPW links. Updated on a daily basis.
The Orthotorium – A picture site of men in leg braces and other orthopaedic gear. Owned by Wigglewort, a regular on the forums.
Na Voziku – A Czech devotee website, where the author goes on trips with a pretty wheelchair pretender and takes nice decent pictures. Includes a free large photo gallery from different sources.
Transabled Sites
Websites relating to Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID).
Transabled.org – an outlet for those of us who are transabled. A few people blog here on a regular basis.
BIID-Info.org – The most comprehensive source of information about Body Integrity Identity Disorder.
