Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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.
For more information about Catarina's public speaking and consulting services, visit https://www.catarinarivera.com.
You can also watch Catarina's videos on YouTube@CatarinaRivera and follow her on social media @blindishlatina:
instagram.com/blindishlatina
tiktok.com/@blindishlatina
“Enable: The Disability Podcast,” which highlights amazing people with disabilities and different abilities, releases new episodes weekly on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Follow facebook.com/enablepodcast or @enablepodcast on Instagram and TikTok for more.
Note: Views expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of Advance Local.
Video description: Catarina Rivera, a dark-haired Latina woman, is sitting in a room and wearing a red-orange mock turtleneck for a podcast interview about travel tips for disabilities. "Enable: The Disability Podcast" co-hosts Geoff Herbert and Kurt Hower are sitting in studios with a white backdrop that says "Enable: The Disability Podcast." Geoff is a white brown-haired man with hearing aids and glasses wearing a black-and-white button down shirt. Kurt is a white bald man with glasses and wearing a blue shirt.
Text on video thumbnail image: "Enable: The Disability Podcast" travel tips for people with disabilities.
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.
For more information about Catarina's public speaking and consulting services, visit https://www.catarinarivera.com.
You can also watch Catarina's videos on YouTube@CatarinaRivera and follow her on social media @blindishlatina:
instagram.com/blindishlatina
tiktok.com/@blindishlatina
“Enable: The Disability Podcast,” which highlights amazing people with disabilities and different abilities, releases new episodes weekly on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Follow facebook.com/enablepodcast or @enablepodcast on Instagram and TikTok for more.
Note: Views expressed in this podcast do not necessarily reflect the views of Advance Local.
Video description: Catarina Rivera, a dark-haired Latina woman, is sitting in a room and wearing a red-orange mock turtleneck for a podcast interview about travel tips for disabilities. "Enable: The Disability Podcast" co-hosts Geoff Herbert and Kurt Hower are sitting in studios with a white backdrop that says "Enable: The Disability Podcast." Geoff is a white brown-haired man with hearing aids and glasses wearing a black-and-white button down shirt. Kurt is a white bald man with glasses and wearing a blue shirt.
Text on video thumbnail image: "Enable: The Disability Podcast" travel tips for people with disabilities.
