Saturday, July 18, 2015

Define “Accessible” (Part 2)




July 18, 2015

Just days after I posted about the difficulties of getting around on crutches, even in supposedly “Handicapped Accessible” places, I read that a lawyer in the St. Louis area is having a beef with the bar association for the same reason. The attorney is in a motorized scooter, and she couldn’t get into the bar association office because the door was big and heavy and didn’t have an automatic opener.

But she didn’t sue; she just refused to pay her dues, since she couldn’t get in.


(The association is now working with the building’s owners to fix the problem.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have you noticed places that have 3-4 handicapped parking spots right outside the door of a building only to discover that the only access ramp is actually 2 or 3 doors down from the parking spots?

Disabled people have said that they feel invisible. The other day when I was shopping and using an electric cart because of my broken ankle, I got a taste of what they mean. People kept cutting in front of me and then slowing to a crawl or stopping completely as if I weren't coming down the aisle in the electric cart, like they didn't even see me!

Peg said...

They're probably the same people who do that when they're driving.