Ooh, look honey, a ramp! We can go shopping

[trouble]

This is almost directly across the street from the retirement home in Mahone Bay, NS.

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[Photo shows a lovingly-made ramp up to an antique store... which starts with a significant step up, so most Chairs won't be able to get on it. A sign loving informs all that they "have things Wal-Mart doesn't have". Which I guess is true - Wal-Mart doesn't have Accessibility Fail, for the most part.]

Overall the trip was pretty good, although several other places that were "accessible" were only so if your Chair was very slender.

I find it rather pathetic that we were shocked when we went to the museum in Lunenburg and the person who explained the accessibility accomodations made in the museum spoke to Don, and not me, even though I was doing most of the Chair-pushing. (We left the electric one at home because it doesn't fit in a car.) It was like they thought Don was a real person, who could think and communicate for himself!

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[sami]

I think if I was the person being asked, I'd talk to the person who asked the question? Like, if Don asked, I'd talk to him, if you asked, I'd talk to you.

I'm pretty sure that it isn't about "who asked", as a rule. *sigh*

My recent grumpiness at accessibility fail (that I can't decide if it's worth posting about here): went to the doctor's on Monday. The medical clinic is on the second floor (as in, second floor in Australian terms; third in USian, we count Ground, First, Second, I'm not sure which Canada uses).

There's a lift. The lift had a sign on it saying it was broken, use the stairs.

Goign up all the stairs was miserable but possible for me... other people, not so much, y'know?

[trouble]

That's actually part of the interesting bit - we didn't have to ask. She just told us! :)

I find it very sad that this thrills me.

ANYWAY.

Yes, post it, and I hope you have the energy to rite a letter to the doctor. That isn't cool.

[willow]

I don't know if my new therapist will think of it, I'll mention it to him, but the old one? If the power went out in the building or the elevator wasn't working - she'd call me to reschedule my appointment so I wouldn't have to walk up the stairs to get to her office and then sit without a/c and attempt to focus on therapy and recover enough to go back down the stairs again.

One time I really needed to see her, so I went anyway and it took me about 20 minutes, going slowly, to make it up the stairs. So it was a good thing I planned for that. But then I just sat in the lobby until the power came back on when it was time to leave.

[treeowl]

For next time, you can actually include alternative text in the standards-compliant method, with an alt attribute.

<img src="http://wherever.com/whatever.png" alt="Picture of a potato lurking in the shadows, ready to pounce on its unsuspecting prey.">

Anyone using a sane text-only browser or screenreader should get the description.