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accessibility_fail2009-06-20 07:48 am
trouble) wrote in accessibility_fail2009-06-20 07:48 am
I just want to go out for a nice meal
My friend is going to write up a full post at some point, but it's on my mind right now.
My friend was calling around various restaurants in Halifax to find out which ones say they're accessible. (How this differs from reality will become clear shortly.)
"The tables on our second floor are set up for wheelchair height. No, we don't have an elevator, why do you ask?"
"It's accessible once you get inside!"
*sigh*
My friend was calling around various restaurants in Halifax to find out which ones say they're accessible. (How this differs from reality will become clear shortly.)
"The tables on our second floor are set up for wheelchair height. No, we don't have an elevator, why do you ask?"
"It's accessible once you get inside!"
*sigh*
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LORDY.
I don't have mobility issues (being short doesn't count), but I've attempted to write characters who do, and my best friend (who has CP and gets around on wrist crutches) and I are planning a big road trip so I've been seeing accessibility fails all over the place.
The Dillard's I used to work at (Sarasota, FL) was one of the best-selling stores in the South, so corporate started dumping the warehouse on our store, to the point where it wasn't wheelchair, walker, or scooter accessible. Hell, I'm pudgy, I couldn't walk sideways through some of them, so we the salespeople wound up moving racks all day so people could get through, and going into personal shopper mode and bringing people stuff is something we did anyway so we just had to do the best we could.