Disabled access

When you hear the words “disabled access” you just think that it covers everything that a disabled person ‘s need but does it really?

 

 Disabled access is there to ensure that disabled people can enter, move around, and use a place or service safely and independently and that is fair enough, everyone should be able to get in and out and move around safely in  a building, but the thing annoys me that disabled access doesn’t cover everyone’s needs.

 

 Let’s talk about toilets! What a subject to be talking about eh?  But I feel toilets are always forgotten about especially when it comes to disabled people.

 

Going to the toilet is a human Right for all of us.  The international law states The United Nation recognizes: The human right to water and sanitation This means everyone should have access to Safe Clean Accessible Affordable Dignified toilets and hygiene facilities, and most of public places do follow this rule but as a disabled person I know it doesn’t meet everyone’s needs.

 

 If there are toilets in a public place you find a disabled toilet too. A disabled toilet is a stand  lone toilet, quite big with  wide doors, grab rails and high toilet seats but  these  toilets are just suitable for disabled people are in a wheelchair and can do everything for themselves  like going to the toilet themselves but what about the  rest of disabled people who needs support and  can’t take themselves to the toilet?

 

 I am a wheelchair user and haven’t got any mobility at all so I require a hoist to go to the toilet, so a normal disabled toilet isn’t any good for me. I need a Changing Places toilet which has a hoist in it.

 

Sadly, not everyone thinks of a Changing pPaces or special equipment to use the toilet and I get it in a way that if you don’t need it you don’t think it and that is fair enough even I do it.

 

But what about inclusion? Shouldn’t everyone be included in the world? Yes, we should be. So, when it comes to disabled access every disabled person need should be included like a changing places toilet.

When I hear people talking about disabled access, I think to myself how accessibility is it, does it meet everyone’s needs?

 

I do hope someday disabled access will meet everyone needs.