Saturday, July 27, 2024

DESIGNING TO AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT COMPLIANCE IS THE FLOOR

NOT THE CEILING. INCLUSIVE DESIGN IS BEAUTIFUL AND DURABLE


Wheelchair access and design that accommodates all disabilities is doomed when a city leader in charge of facilities "boasts" that something has minimum ADA compliance.

How come everything else is made state of the art, but people with disabilities get the bare minimum?

Ask your mayor, commissioner, director of essential departments -- transit, parks, public works, planning, building -- why July 26 is significant.

Not 5% will know it's the ADA's anniversary.

This is why the built environment is NOT accessible. 

It is why Universal Design is not part of the though process of planning, design and building.



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