WD SKÅDIS Accessibility Collection

I started designing these because sometimes the smallest design choice can turn a simple task into way more work than it needs to be.

I’m a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy, and my hands don’t always cooperate with tiny tabs, tight grips, pinch-style clips, or anything that seems to require three perfectly functioning fingers and the patience of a saint. So when I started 3D printing accessories for my own SKÅDIS setup, I began looking at them through a slightly different lens.

Can I reach it easily? Can I grab what’s in it without fighting the container? Can I drop something into place instead of threading, squeezing, or snapping it in? And can it still look like something I actually want hanging in my office?

That became the idea behind the WD SKÅDIS Accessibility Collection.

These are not intended to look like medical or “special” equipment. They’re everyday organizers designed with thoughtful details that can make them easier to use: larger openings, drop-in storage, easy-to-reach fronts, wider hooks, retaining lips, and fewer fiddly movements.

The collection currently includes 14 original Wheelchair Dad designs covering everyday organization, display, and the 3D-printing workshop. You’ll find shelves, bins, a utility hook, pen/tool storage, an octagon display, a full-width slanted shelf, a printer cleaning station, maintenance caddy, a 200 mm card/photo display shelf, and multiple ways to organize empty filament spools.

I intentionally included different ways to accomplish the same job. For example, empty spools can be stored on a rod, dropped into individual compartments, or placed on an open shelf. Accessibility isn’t one-size-fits-all. What is easiest for my hands may not be easiest for yours, so whenever possible I’d rather give you options.

And yes, once you own a 3D printer, apparently one of its primary jobs becomes printing accessories for the 3D printer. I have accepted this.

A few design principles behind the collection

• Designed from the perspective of an actual wheelchair user.

• Gross-hand-friendly access wherever practical.

• Open and drop-in storage instead of unnecessary clips or latches.

• Retaining lips on display surfaces to help keep items in place.

• SKÅDIS-compatible mounting with downward locking geometry.

• Workshop accessories designed around practical everyday use.

• Designed for the Bambu Lab P2S 256 × 256 × 256 mm build volume.

• WD navy and white-marble styling throughout the multicolor versions.

The included 3MF files were prepared using my Bambu Lab P2S, so if you’re printing on another machine, please review the orientation and slicer settings for your printer before starting.

This is also my first publicly released Wheelchair Dad design collection, which makes it a pretty big milestone for me. If you print something, please share a Make. I genuinely want to see how these end up being used in other offices, workshops, hobby spaces, and homes.

And if you don’t personally need the easier-access features but like the thinking behind them, that means something too.

You don’t have to need a design to believe it should exist.

Print what works for you, adapt it to your space, and let me know what you think I should design next.

Designed by a wheelchair user. Built from lived experience. Made for real life.