2025 Hands Around the Capitol

 2025 Hands Around the Capitol

https://idahoaccessproject.org/hands-around-the-capital

Please join us for Hands Around the Capitol 2025, kicking off a three-month celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 25, 2025 from 10am to 4pm in Cecil Andrus Park in Boise, Idaho. This is a statewide in-person, educational and awareness event that will be connected by live streaming platforms to coordinate with national ADA celebrations and awareness events across our nation.

Want to get involved? We're still looking for sponsors and vendors to support and participate in this celebratory event. Support here

Big News!

NaviLens: We're featuring this groundbreaking navigational and interpretive technology to help us celebrate the Ada, and to support inclusive business, travel, and tourism while highlighting the needs of folks with sensory disabilities, neurodiversity, or alternate language needs.

NaviLens is an adaptive technology that helps people of all abilities and communication preferences to navigate spaces and access interpretive information. Learn more through this YouTube overview.

What sets NaviLens apart from standard QR codes? (from the NaviLens FAQ Page:

"The NaviLens Accessible QR Code can be read from much further away, within an angle of up to 160 degrees and on the move. This allows its use without the need to focus or frame the code on the mobile screen. The user does not need to know exactly where the codes are and can therefore be used by blind or vision impaired people. In addition, the user experience is much more satisfactory as it is much faster and easier to use.

Blind people or anyone with low vision in general struggle to use a QR code because they do not know where it is placed and so have great difficulty focusing and framing it. The NaviLens Accessible QR Code does not need to be focused or framed and can therefore be used by everyone."

Download the Navilens app for either iPhone Apple iOS or Android Google Play

Idaho Access Project

The Idaho Access Project is making things happen in Idaho. 

This small nonprofit is has cultivated partnerships with local and state government, small businesses, transportation and land-use planners, recreation and outdoor advocates, and even working with Boise State University. The group's all-volunteer board is actively engaged in multiple committees, task forces and networks...all as part of its mission to "...eliminate physical, attitudinal, and policy barriers to ensure people with disabilities can live, work, and play in our neighborhoods and communities."

The group recently presented a session called 'Count Us In: Planning and Design for Community Health, Mobility and Safety' for the 2021 Rocky Mountain Land-Use Institute.