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Last week, a Bay Area advocacy group filed a class action lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc., claiming the ride-hailing company discriminated against wheelchair users.

Your doctor just got in the Uber dispatching business.

Rideshare company Uber announced Thursday that it would be partnering with local health care facilities to offer patients rides to their doctors’ offices. But, as the company plans to roll out the initiative, it faces lawsuits in several major cities alleging that it fails to provide enough wheelchair-accessible vehicles to customers.

Uber has a specific service for people with wheelchairs, it’s called UberWAV for “wheelchair accessible vehicle.” But disability rights advocates say those cars are rarely available.

Disability advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against Uber on Tuesday over the company’s lack of wheelchair-accessible vehicles, alleging it amounts to “illegal discrimination.”

When you request an Uber ride, you can swipe through options such as UberX, Pool, Black, SUV and WAV, which stands for “wheelchair accessible vehicle.”

A lawsuit was filed against Kern County on Wednesday by two disability rights groups claiming that youth in the county’s correctional facilities were discriminated against.

The MTA agrees to study how it can open up more of the subway system to disabled riders who now have access to less than a quarter of its stations.

Sid Wolinsky, Disability Rights Advocates, on Strategic Litigation (video with transcription and captioning)

E la Carte, Inc., creators of the PrestoPrime EMV System for full-service restaurants, and Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar, announced a partnership with the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired of San Francisco to produce a text-to-speech capability for the PrestoPrime EMV System that will be incorporated […]