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Accessibility Fail In the Big Apple
May. 12th, 2010 04:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spazgirlMy first time posting on Accessibility_Fail, thanks to roserodent for helping me!
So, I was in Manhattan last weekend and we were looking at restaurants trying to decide where to go for dinner. One restaurant had a HUGE step up to the front door and no other way for a wheelchair user of getting in that particular door unless a person suddenly learned to levitate (Wingardium Leviosa!). Next to the front door there was a doorbell, and next to the doorbell was a sign with the handicapped symbol on it and "Please Ring for Assistance". I suppose whoever was stupid enough to put that there thinks all disabled people automatically have monkey arms as some sort of a compensation??? I was sorely regretting not having my camera with me...
*facepalm* And I won't even go into my feelings about having to "ring for assistance" while everyone else can just waltz right through the door without a second thought...
So, I was in Manhattan last weekend and we were looking at restaurants trying to decide where to go for dinner. One restaurant had a HUGE step up to the front door and no other way for a wheelchair user of getting in that particular door unless a person suddenly learned to levitate (Wingardium Leviosa!). Next to the front door there was a doorbell, and next to the doorbell was a sign with the handicapped symbol on it and "Please Ring for Assistance". I suppose whoever was stupid enough to put that there thinks all disabled people automatically have monkey arms as some sort of a compensation??? I was sorely regretting not having my camera with me...
*facepalm* And I won't even go into my feelings about having to "ring for assistance" while everyone else can just waltz right through the door without a second thought...