Even Grounds – Inclusive and accessible travel for blind people

If you are blind, when you visit a restroom by default you will end up touching many more things than sighted people to find the same facilities. Wouldn’t it be great to minimize contact with things you wouldn’t need to touch in the first place? This is why I invented the accessible tactile 3D printed..

Sometimes our accessible 3D design does more than accessible replicas. Recently we have rebuilt the Donoho hotel that was lost in a fire accident in 2025. (more…)

Over the last couple of years, Even Grounds has been working on a very rewarding project with the Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. We are creating 3D printed tactile objects for schools for the blind around to world to help the teaching of biology. The way this program works is that they..

On Friday, June 12, 2026 Mark Zuckerberg announced a donation of approximately 130000 Meta Ray-Ban glasses to blind veterans. The goal is to provide each blinded veteran with one in the United States. This does not mean that they will now start mailing one out to each eligible person. Rather, people who can prove eligibility..

In the first chapter I gave you a few examples of what an accessibility committee can do. We will expand that in greater detail later, but for now, let’s talk about why it is relevant. In a nutshell, I would say that the accessibility committee is the bridge between what is now and what is..

I think you will read many more times in this guide that it depends, or each organization is different. But let me give you some ideas about who should participate in an accessibility committee. For now I won’t worry much about the size of the committee, as it will have to be its own discussion...

The following is the first part of a longer series I am planning to write about accessibility committees. In this first part I will explain what it is. However, before I get started, if we haven’t met each other yet, you may wonder what qualifies me to write about the topic. (more…)

I would like to introduce my friend of 20 years, Julius Charles Serrano, a coach, speaker, accessibility consultant and an adventurer. We met in person the first and only time in Malaysia in 2008, when I taught the first group of blind people in South-East Asia to become accessibility consultants. Since then we worked together..

Recently I found that more and more flights have braille numbers above the seats. The first time I came across this in 2023 on an Air Canada flight. But I also read that United Airlines will outfit all their flights with braille seat numbers by the end of 2026. Since then, I found these more..

After my visit, I couldn’t tell you what was more fascinating: the historic building, the eclectic exhibit, or the owner himself. Each is worth a visit on its own, but the three-in-one package is the real deal. I hadn’t heard of the Darl Center until I met the owner, Darl Schaaff, at the Ohio Museums..