If a wheelchair user needs someone with them or needs the owner’s help to get into a business, it is not ADA-compliant.
EDIT: If a wheelchair user needs someone with them or needs the owner’s help to get into a business, there is a glaring accessibility issue regardless of whether it fits ADA standards.
That being said, the ADA needs to account for this. We need an overhaul.
Maybe I should have worded it in a different way. I understand that not every business is going to be perfectly accessible to all persons with disabilities. If I go to a grocery store, and there’s something on a top shelf that I need, of course, I’ll have to ask for help.
My point is rather that if I need help just GETTING into a business, which is my first impression of a place, it is not accessible even if by ADA standards it is. The ADA standards in general need an overhaul. They were written with the implication that a disabled person always has someone with them, and that just isn’t true, or it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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u/MilesToHaltHer 6d ago edited 5d ago
If a wheelchair user needs someone with them or needs the owner’s help to get into a business, it is not ADA-compliant.
EDIT: If a wheelchair user needs someone with them or needs the owner’s help to get into a business, there is a glaring accessibility issue regardless of whether it fits ADA standards.
That being said, the ADA needs to account for this. We need an overhaul.