Accessible to the disabled?

Question

What kind of places do you think are accessible to everyone (disabled and not) and what kind of places do you think need work on becoming more accessible?

Answer 1

New type shopping malls a far to large for disabled people.
In most cases distance from the blue parking bay in the car park is far to great for many of us.This is why many of us still use older type shopping areas.

Answer 2

Most new buildings are accessible now as the laws have forced all contractors to put it in now as they build buildings, Even at prisons now they have to have handicap showers, bathrooms, and water fountains. Everything has to accessible. Maybe in some really old buildings there willnot be any access but over all in the last ten years the US has made some good improvements for the disabled. What gets you in the old buildings is the door ways, a lot of the new wheelchairs won't fit thru the door ways and then you are stuck.

Answer 3

Accessibility is far more than a ramp. It's making the washrooms large enough for an electric wheelchair to get in and out with placement of toilet paper easy to get to . It's making the sinks so that wheelchairs can fit under them.

It's having doors with buttons that also have braille on them that easily swing open so they don't block the wheelchair or knock over the person who uses a cane or who is elderly.

It's providing braille or audio readers for menus and not having the light so dim you need a flashlight. Or putting things in lanes of stores that wheelchair or people with canes don't crash into. It's keeping your kids in line and not running all over the place where they can be knocked down or run over by chairs or shopping carts.

It's societal attitudes about disabilities , about hiring disabled people , about designing buildings that are pretty but also accessible. It's having signage that is large and easy to read. It's having lights that chirp or talk so that blind people know when to cross the street and it's making it a decent interval so you don't have to do a sprint to get across the cross walk before some car or bike decides to mow you down.

It's keeping your sidewalks and stairs clear of ice and snow as soon as possible after a snow storm.

These are just a few things society must do to improve accessbility.

Answer 4

Most newer buildings have done a fairly good job at being accessible to the disabled. Most older buildings are not, and probably never will be accessible, it all comes down to cost.

Answer 5

Here in Canada you can expect accessibility in public buildings...in fact most buildings...and restaurants, hotels and tourist attractions.

If you see a handicapped entrance there must be corresponding handicapped bathrooms, etc!

When the handicapped MUST go, for licences or health card renewals, if you find any impediments, complain until it is changed!!!

This happened to me renewing my health card in Chatham, Ontario.

Ironically the building was owned by the hospital. They should've known better!

I saw their inadequate handicapped accessibility was poor, and I SAID SO, to both the government and hospital!!!

Yes, an expensive construction job was done to widen the ramp and put in push button automatic door openers.

Answer 6

I am pretty sure every public building & business is now accessible. You can still work on some National/state parks and nature reserves, but even there I had seen some accessible trails.