Travel tips from ‘Blindish Latina’ Catarina Rivera

How should you plan for a vacation with a disability? What kind of accessibility resources and options are available for travel?

“Blindish Latina” and disability advocate Catarina Rivera talks with “Enable: The Disability Podcast” about her experiences growing up with hearing loss, trying to hide a progressive vision disability, accessibility tools for the deaf-blind such as a white cane and live captioning, and the importance of image descriptions for low vision audiences. She also shares some of her favorite places she’s visited and meals she’s enjoyed, plus provides insight on the four stages of her disability journey from denial to acceptance to self-advocacy to public advocacy.