Speak up for wheelchair repair
Cure SMA’s campaign lets you enter your address, review a prepared message and contact your members of Congress about wheelchair repair barriers.
Open wheelchair repair actionStart here. A few minutes can help.
Support the right to repair
The Repair Association’s action page helps you find your state lawmakers and personalize a letter. Review the campaign’s scope before sending.
Find your state’s actionMake the problem visible
Had trouble getting a part, arranging a repair or adapting equipment? Tell Travis what happened and what would have helped.
Share your repair story by emailCampaign buttons open other organizations’ websites. You review and send your own message there. This guide does not send messages or collect your address. If an address lookup fails, use the official lawmaker links below.
Right to repair and right to modify
Right to repair: owners and independent repair providers can get the parts, tools, documentation and software needed to fix their equipment, without waiting weeks or months for one authorized dealer.
Right to modify: people can adjust, adapt and improve their own equipment, with appropriate technical support. Open-source designs like those MIF develops are built to be repaired and modified locally.
Where things stand
- Colorado passed the first powered wheelchair repair law in 2022. Washington, Oregon and Nevada have since enacted wheelchair repair laws, several taking effect January 1, 2026.
- A federal Wheelchair Right to Repair Act (H.R. 5039) was introduced in the House on August 26, 2025.
- Bills have been proposed in other states. Each law differs in which devices it covers and who enforces it, so read your own state’s version.
While laws catch up
Repair clinics, reuse programs and home-modification help exist now. Find ones near you, then use the actions above to ask for change.
Repair it. Adapt it. Keep it useful.
- Repair: access to parts, service information, diagnostics and a choice of repair provider.
- Adapt: equipment that can be customized to a person’s changing needs, with appropriate technical support.
- Reuse: repairable equipment that can continue helping someone rather than being discarded.
These are related goals. A repair campaign may address only some of them; its scope matters.
Explore the Mobility Independence Foundation: MIF develops and shares open-source mobility designs and promotes users’ ability to repair, adapt and improve their equipment.
Read MIF’s mission and approach →Put it in your own words
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Need help with equipment now?
The directory also has county contacts and home accessibility resources. Start with your state and county, then choose accessibility support.
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FEATURED ORGANIZATION
Mobility Independence Foundation
MIF designs open-source mobility equipment that people can repair, adapt and improve, including the Endurance power chair and the RozRover for children, and it speaks up for users’ right to repair. MIF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
If you would like to support that work, you can donate to MIF.
Mobility Talk is an independent site created by Travis Vought, who serves as Finance Officer of the Mobility Independence Foundation.