If You’re Gonna Make Something Wheelchair Accessible, Don’t Make It A Thing

If You’re Gonna Make Something Wheelchair Accessible, Don’t Make it a Thing

Here’s some examples awkward accessibility being a thing:

Your at a hotel that has a lift to get you from one sub-floor to another, but the lift can only be unlocked and operated by one specific person that the hotel now has to go find. Sure, they’ve made the entrance to the sub-floor is accessible, but now it’s a thing.

The buses are wheelchair accessible but the driver has to stop the bus, take 30 seconds to lower the goddamn ramp, move passengers out of their seats, hook up the straps and then secure you in the bus. Sure, they’ve made the busses accessible but now it’s a thing.

The restaurant has an accessible entrance, but it’s past the trash room and through the kitchen. Sure, the restaurant is accessible, but now it’s an insulting thing.

Here’s some great examples of accessibility not being a thing:

The train to the airport pulls up flush with the platform. I board with everyone else and sit wherever the fuck I want. Riding the train is accessible and not a thing.

In Portland, I press a button the side of the streetcar and a ramp automatically extends at the same time the door opens. I board in the same amount of time as everyone else. This is not a thing.

I get that it is difficult to design for wheelchair accessibility, but folks need to start considering the overall quality of the experience versus just thinking about meeting the minimum requirements.

JACK PLEASE DON’T LOOK AT THIS POST

Hello everyone in the great jse community. Funny title huh. So I have sth in mind that I wanna share with you guys. I can only do this with your help. So as you all know the channel is about to hit 19m subs. So it means there is only 1m left to 20m subs which I think is a pretty hight and special number. So I wanna start a thing. We want you guys to write “HAPPY 20M SUBS BOSS” on your hands and take pics of them.

Sth like this. Sorry I don’t have a good handwriting and I can’t draw 😂 this is just an example.

Then we will put them together and make a slide show kind of video for Jack. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to make the vid but even if it doesn’t get made we’ve done a nice little thing with the pics for Jack :) Maybe if the vid get made we’ll be able to ask him to react to it? That’s unlikely but first let’s hope that the video will get made. I’m not sure if it’ll be done esp cause my exams will start in a few days but I’ll try my best so that it’ll be done.

If you wanna participate with your pic please reblog this post with the pic of your hand. Please don’t send the pics to me just reblog.

If you wanna help but don’t want to post your pic you can just reblog without saying anything so that more ppl will know about this .

PLEASE if you’re a good editor and can help with making the video send me a message cause we really need editors.

I’m tagging some well-known ppl in this community so that maybe they can spread this message if they want. @jacksoopticboop @deepeearts @van-arts @kasper-the-ghost @hufflepufftrax @mrcamillaa @katielovesyoutubers35 @rare-magpie @lum1natrix @fear-is-nameless @nightmarewolf133

Sorry for spamming you guys Xd

Sorry for talking so much and for my bad English.

OK guys as I said this is not gonna happen for sure but if it’s going to happen I need your participation in this. Hope you all have a nice time :D

And remember to keep that PMA :D

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kg2159

7 years ago

If anyone wants to still volunteer, DM me (therealonethyfox) or our instagram (hdwghtourproject) or twitter (hdwghtourprojec)! PLEASE REBLOG TOO!!!!

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kg2159

7 years ago

is this real?!

i’m having pr o b lems

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5 years ago

REBLOG IF STRIPE

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kg2159

6 years ago

This is amazing and funny

My students are up to something. They keep coming up to me and handing me pieces of fruit, and when I ask why, they just smile cryptically and say, “Don’t worry about it.”

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kg2159

5 years ago

Starting a Cult

Reblog to join.

We’ve got snacks.

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6 years ago

🏳️‍🌈This blog supports all sexual orientations and gender identities

Reblog if yours does too.

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6 years ago

Screw it.

Reblog this post before October 31st and I’ll say what monster/cryptid/mythical creature you remind me of just from scrolling through your blog a bit. Make sure you have asks open.

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5 years ago