After viral graduation walk, paraplegic student calls for greater accessibility: ‘It doesn’t have to be so hard’

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After viral graduation walk, paraplegic student calls for greater accessibility: ‘It doesn’t have to be so hard’
Published May 15, 2026

After a truck accident left him paralyzed, Jaiden Picot crossed his graduation stage in a robotic exoskeleton

Jaiden Picot, who was paralyzed in 2024 after a truck hit him, never imagined that video of him recently walking across Virginia Union University (VUU)‘s graduation stage in a futuristic robotic suit would go viral.

But since it did, he says he wants the world to know that he intends to spend his professional career trying to help make the place more accessible to people who – like him – use a wheelchair to get around.

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