Handicapped Accessibility – Good for Business
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on August 20th, 2008 in Emotional Issues, Linked Articles.
Question: What do you do if you are disabled, and you cannot gain entry into a retail store, restaurant, hotel, or other public building? How about if, once you get inside, you find that you cannot take full advantage of services offered?
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Handicapped Accessiblity is Just Good Business
August 26th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Hi,
I have had that to happen to me really. One day I decided to take my daughter to a second hand store in my wheelchair. Well it was a disaster. Its hard enough to get out anyways. Well I roll in and then I can’t get down the hallway because its all cluttered with boxes and purses that I couldn’t get past hardly. The girl at the desk tried to help, I did finally make it down the store a bit, but it didn’t do me any good because the area I had to go to clothes shop was too narrow for me to even get down to. In the mean time I knocked shoes off racks and stuff because the walkway was so narrow. Needless to say its the only deccent thrift shop in town, but I can’t go there because its a handicapped persons nightmare. I was so embarrased!!
August 27th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I think we need to come up with a way to approach businesses when we have a experience like yours. I’d love to get some feedback from someone who has had success in getting a business to change.