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Disabled: Encounters with disabled toilets

Meetings with disabled toilets

Now, when people talk to me about disabled toilets I can not see a dip belt and bowed with their top of the tank and mango-colored twisted loose, whether in crutches or wheelchair. The same applies to disabled parking, but here I see a crooked stick with a stick, with the perverse sign. I know I'm being difficult, but if we called for toilets for disabled people being seen in its proper form.

We found some beautiful, big, small, narrow, the stinky, the dirty stranger, impractical conditions to fill a space, simply because it is a requirement to have them, but especially with single basin, damaged seats and lack of or broken soap dispensers, drying units, paper towels, toilet paper and the list goes on.

Speaking on the way! I would like know that in the grand scheme of things decides that the architect's plans for facilities for disabled people in public places are acceptable and designed or all of these levels of acceptance.

It appears that this group or person has a corridor in a wheelchair in your group, or consult with him / her if do. One of my great desire is that the construction industry is monitoring body employing persons with disabilities, wheelchair architect to spend all plans for buildings new and subject to changes. And complying with laws.

My wife and I have gone through all the shopping malls in Cape Town, because it is more easier than trying to negotiate without firm tracks wheelchair at all crossroads, the entries in the store, etc. Although there are some that come to most requirements do not.

Let me start with the doors, ---- when it has found a security guard with the appropriate key. The doors are generally more by necessity for chairs, but extremely difficult to pull or push open from inside foot. And much less when in a wheelchair. I think designers forget that our feet protruding from the handle in many cases. How can you pull a door open when you are sitting in front of her feet almost touching the door? They also tend to be heavier, because of their size and no central hole that would make them lighter. In many cases the walls of entry "bedroom" in front of the door is not allow a person to keep the door open without their toes mounted. An electronic sliding door button would be a real blessing. (Could If this is so difficult to install?)

Then try to enter the automatic doors as well to his best sandwich of us against the door frame. (Hey! Guys, we have our hands to push the wheelchair or at least one of them to manipulate the joystick) how can we keep the door open?

To turn around in some it is impossible, because of design or sheer lack of space. This requires careful maneuvering or leave and come back again. Now try to open the door from that position! ---------- Impossible!

To wash and dry hands is also a work of art like the soap dispenser is inevitably a wall, the driest in another with sometimes basin located between them.

Wet your hands and then maneuver to the soap and then with soap and hand back to the basin then back to the drier. By then, in my case, I have CPR after running the marathon of handwashing. Besides having to clean the soap off the wheel or the joystick.

Sometimes, the facility is located within the normal man or woman bathing area. This is a problem when your care provider is opposite sex.

Cheap plastic, wobbly, loose seats or the cracked and broken are a definite no no. "Try to jump from a seat that suddenly cracked clinging to a piece of your ass when your legs or arms can not support it. "

I lost a lot of muscle mass on my buttocks or rather has become fat and moved to my stomach (or so my wife tells me), so trying to sit on a toilet without a seat is difficult, almost impossible, sometimes with hilarious results. My back definitely not as wide as a bathroom so when I forgot to put the seat until I finished with my bony ass securely fitted into the mouth of this man eating odorless, thin knees around the ears. I must have looked a bit like a praying mantis about to pounce on an insect no luck.

My arms are so weak as my legs, so to try to lift myself from the clutches of the evil bathroom was impossible. I had to ask for help from my family who helped duly get me out of my situation, to my shame and theirs also, no doubt.

What we need is an assessment of the facilities for the disabled. Something like those applied to hotels. But we need a disability, people in wheelchairs to establish requirements for each level or a star. Maybe then we could decide which mall to visit based on the information displayed on a bulletin board outside the center in no parking outside the car. Rather, in discover too late that the facilities will not meet our needs when required with some urgency.

Not only will shopping malls to use their facilities. We make your shopping in some of them.

In all malls, service stations on main roads, churches, restaurants and those who design and build. If you are going to provide facilities for the disabled, to the design, location, basic mechanics and maintenance of a thought. No just add them at the last moment just to meet minimum legal requirements. It is useless advertising that is adapted to disabled when not can attend a wheelchair. For us, a serious yet as bad as a step. (Just as useless). Facilities that are also impractical could not so well be there. We must remember that not everyone has the same form to enter or exit a wheelchair. Handles in the wrong place to force people to use the basin or other meeting of leverage or support, which in turn results in river parts, etc. of waste containers occupy valuable space and get crushed by turning the wheels of the chairs of power. Soap dispensers and drying units that are too high are not useful for wheelchair users. Some of us have weakened arms can not reach them.

I would encourage all people with disabilities who have or have had a bad experience with facilities for disabled write to the center of the managers of these centers, shops, malls, restaurants etc., and advise them as problems. Unfortunately, it is a fact of life that people can physically have no clue as to our needs. We will inform and facilitate our struggle together. Make enough noise and we will be heard.

EEP100 - Lecture 2 - Claire Tompkins

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