01/12/2025
Accessibility Unwrapped | Learn With ESS 💚💙🧡
“I carry this ramp everywhere I go because the world still throws stairs at me but this ramp is my freedom.”
Most people never think twice about a single step outside a café, a raised curb, or a doorway that sits just a little too high. But for many wheelchair users, that “small step” becomes a full barrier. A moment of exclusion. A reminder that accessible design still isn’t a universal priority.
So I travel with my portable ramp.
Not because it’s convenient, it isn’t.
Not because I should have to, I shouldn’t.
But because too many spaces still aren’t built with people like me in mind.
At Learn With ESS, stories like this sit at the heart of what we do. Accessibility isn’t just a topic, it’s lived experience. And this ramp represents something the built environment often takes away: freedom, independence, and dignity.
It allows me to enter places confidently, without waiting, without asking, and without relying on someone to remember to make the space accessible. In its own way, it’s dignity in aluminium.
Accessibility is not a favour.
It’s not a special request.
It’s a basic right.
And you truly understand that when you meet someone who has to carry their own access with them.
That’s why Accessibility Unwrapped matters — to highlight the everyday realities behind the word inclusion, and to remind us all that accessibility starts long before someone arrives at the door.
