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Madison opens its first playground accessible to children with disabilities | Politics and Elections | host.madison.com

Children with physical and developmental disabilities now have an accessible city playground.The new Brittingham Park playground on Madison’s South Side includes traditional park features such as monkey bars while providing intellectually stimulating puzzles, an accessible merry-go-round and a smooth rubber surface around the play equipment. It is the first of five such playgrounds the city plans to create.“Often we express equity as an idea,” Norman Davis, director of the city’s Department of Civil Rights, said at a news conference Thursday. “But often we struggle to really conceptualize what equity looks like,” Davis said, adding, “before us today we have an example of what equity looks like.”

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