After you’ve read this special issue on accessible homes, I’m sure you will want to explore the ideas in here more fully. If you have access to the internet, we can help you do that at our home in cyberspace.
This month, United Spinal’s Web site, www.unitedspinal.org, relaunches with a fresh, clean look that should make navigation more intuitive than on the previous site. An internal search tool on the home page eliminates the need for a site map. Is there an article you wanted to share with friends a couple of months ago, before the dog used Action as a chew toy? Just type a keyword or two into the search box, hit enter, and-voila!-a link to the article appears.
You may also want to bookmark Action’s own home page (www.unitedspinal.org/publications/action/). There, you will not only find articles from the current issue and the Action/Orbit archives, but also some articles that aren’t in the magazine. For example, this month, you’ll find an article by Lori Wood about Future Home, an accessible home museum based in a historic farmhouse in Phoenix, Maryland. Action Online is also a good place to go for extras from articles that are in the magazine. Rosemarie Rossetti’s cover story, for example, has a sidebar online that includes links to other Web sites where you can get more information about universal design features for the home.
Action Online also makes interaction with what you’re reading as simple as writing an e-mail—and you don’t even have to address it! If you have a comment or question about any item you read, simply leave your comment in the box at the end of the piece and click send. After a short wait (usually), your comment will appear with the article. If we think it’s interesting and worth sharing, your comment might even appear in print, in our new “What’s Bloggin’?” department.
Incidentally, home (or business) owners, if you’re looking for affordable accessibility solutions, you may want to bookmark our Accessibility Services home page as well: www.accessibility-services.com.
I hope to see you on line. If not, see you here next month.
Christofer Pierson
Managing Editor
