Campaigners say Dave McQuirk’s story is the “tip of the iceberg” for disabled travellers after £50 million of government funding for rail improvements was deferred.
"Having to constantly fight for access to things really rams it home that we aren't equal," one student told BuzzFeed News.
Use the picture sliders to see how music festival moments would look with different eye conditions.
Couples who would lose disability benefits if they lived together told BuzzFeed News the situation makes them feel they “don’t deserve to have a normal life”.
When it comes to my illness, I've learned to listen to my symptoms, trust my body, and give it the one thing it really needs: rest.
It's going to be a long trip.
“I’d love to shag in your toilet, if only I could get in.”
"No one ever thinks that they may end up becoming disabled, but why should it stop me? I still have the same dreams and aspirations as anyone else.”
“They are not just my carers. In some ways they are my friend, my mum, they are everything wrapped in one.”
So much of modern feminism relies on the ideal of female bodies that work as expected. For me and lots of other disabled people, that’s a model we simply don’t fit.
It's 2017 and disabled shoppers are still being "ostracised" from the high street thanks to a lack of access. Meet the woman who thinks it's time to change that for good.
According to Mencap, 1,200 people with learning disabilities are dying in hospital every year because they are not getting appropriate health care – and many more are suffering unnecessarily.
One drunken decision and a year and a half of planning later, I set off with my friend Steph for the trip of a lifetime.
In the UK, it's against the law to discriminate against an employee because of a disability, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
“With great power comes great responsibility,” Adam Hills told BuzzFeed News. “I’m like a disabled Spider-Man; I was bitten by a radioactive prosthesis.”
From a pair of "glasses" that can help some legally blind people see to the latest in prosthetic knee technology that's now available on the NHS – here are some of the products helping make people's lives better.
Nobody expected Jared O'Mara to be in the House of Commons right now – least of all O'Mara himself. Now the Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam plans to use his new role to keep fighting to improve life for people with disabilities.
A BuzzFeed News investigation also reveals that 96% of areas are failing to supply wheelchairs within the 18 weeks guaranteed by the NHS constitution.
At first, Nura Aabe avoided her son’s autism diagnosis. Now she uses her experience to change the lives of other families.
"The government just moved the goalposts and didn’t bother to tell anybody."
Analysis given exclusively to BuzzFeed News shows people in the UK were more likely to say they faced disability discrimination than those in other major European countries.
"Never judge a book by its cover – not all disabilities are visible."
