The blog fictive-promos has a discord server! I know there’s another one but I’m not completely sure if I’m allowed to give out the invite link but I can look around to see who to ask
Their entry system is scary but I’m trying my best
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.
I was just thinking about this cos the entrance to this apartment building has a problem with that. Its almost comical how there’s a ramp at the door BUT in order to get to that ramp you have to get up two small steps. And in order to get a wheelchair up that you have to go like 50 feet away to find a small ramp up to that section of the pavement. Also for some reason the ramp is also stairs? Like its only two very thin strips of ramp roughly apart at the width of a wheelchair, and then everything between them is stairs. So if you had a wheelchair that wasnt that exact standardized width i could imagine it being really difficult! Its all so amnoying cos five centimetres past that door is an elevator that goes to anywhere around the building, its just got this one frustrating two step set of stairs on the way in.
One of the things (used in line with use in OP) I find annoying is the Radar Key system
In order to use the disabled bathroom in pretty much any public place, I have to possess a Radar Key. This is not free, but at the same time literally anybody can buy one
So the problem they’re trying to circumnavigate - disabled toilet access only for the people who actually need it - is completely irrelevant because the thing they’ve put in place to circumnavigate it is literally just a money-making scheme
Paper straws are so shit, its so rare to find a brand that doesnt fall apart if you so much as look at a glass of water. Like why would you even design it to not do what it do!!
