Nov. 8th, 2009

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[personal profile] jesse_the_k and I attended an Assistive Technology Expo the other day. It was held in 2 shiny engineering buildings on a major university campus.

The "accessible" doors that everyone was using to enter the main hall were failtastic. They took a long time to open and swung in such a way as to knock into the footplate of a wheelchair, or possibly into the knees of the wheelchair user pushing the button.

Naturally I took pictures.

two pictures )

Mostly the Expo was fantastic. There were a couple of other things I noted that could have been done to improve access:
--Provide water service (and possibly food service)
--Provide benches and seating
--Have all the exhibits in one building instead of two (the exhibitors in the 2nd building got a lot less traffic I suspect)

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