Ride-sharing services, such as Uber and Lyft, have surged in popularity in the past several years. People all across the country, and the world, utilize ride-sharing services on a day-to-day basis to get where they need to go. Unfortunately, ride-sharing services are widely inaccessible to people with physical disabilities. Read on to learn about the complications with the Americans with Disabilities Act, accessibility, and ride-sharing services.

I was 16 years old when in one moment I was living my life as an able-bodied person and in the next moment was sitting in a hospital being told I would never walk again. That is when a doctor first called me disabled. I spent the next decade working off that label. Then it hit me...why was I working so hard to make everyone think I wasn’t disabled?