
Building Access
Last week I was travelling home when I happened to stumble upon a new commercial building sign, designed to signpost visitors to and from the building. The sign, however, made me wince. Here is a picture of it.
Invisible Disabilities Are Commonplace
In short, the way in which the word ‘Visitor’ was isolated from ‘Disabled’ and 'Contractors' indicated that the sign writer and initiator believe that Disabled Visitors are not classified as Visitors, but rather belong to a disabled species of human that need to stand out from the non disabled.
The truth is that we cannot distinguish between non disabled and disabled visitors as easily
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