SEGREGATES, ISOLATES, HUMILIATES PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Imagine every day at work, you walk and roll to the office, out to lunch, etc. -- with your fellow employees. But you cannot joint them because your entrance is separated.
You have do
the walk and roll of shame up a ramp hidden off from the main entrance –
creating a barrier between you and mainstream access.
This is the Florida
Department of Health’s main entrance to the facility providing dozens of
essential services to millions of Miami-Dade County residents.
It is up
steps.
There is a tiny, almost hidden sign indicating
a ramp — but not even an arrow pointing the direction to wheelchair access
somewhere off in the distance.
The building
is relatively new — built decades after the Americans with Disabilities Act.
How can
anyone design or build something that creates segregation, the gives wheelchair
users second class status?
