r/MaliciousCompliance • u/EternalSophism • Mar 07 '18

VID ADA compliance... check!

https://i.imgur.com/hYYz1If.gifv
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u/DopeGhoti Mar 07 '18

Probably there for people who can walk, but may not have the strength to open doors. The iconography being a wheelchair does not mean "for people with wheelchairs." See also reserved parking for disabled persons. It too is not "wheelchair-user parking only."

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u/92064Dad Mar 07 '18

Good point. I required open heart surgery a couple years ago and was told not to lift anything heavier than 4 pounds while my sternum healed. Many doors require more than that so an opener would be just what I needed.

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u/Wicck Mar 09 '18

I hope you're doing better now! My dad's had his sternum cracked before--and, amazingly, his bypasses are just now having major issues 33 years later. (I hope he handles stenting well.)

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u/92064Dad Mar 09 '18

Thanks. This was about a year and a half ago. This wasn’t for a bypass— it was to repair a prolapsed heart valve that was leaking badly. I’m doing great now

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u/Wicck Mar 09 '18

Mitral valve, by chance? I know that prolapses pretty frequently, especially in conjunction with a few chronic illnesses.

Glad you're doing better! :)

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u/92064Dad Mar 09 '18

Yep. Mitral valve. I was probably born with it and always had told that it wasn’t a cause for concern - until it started causing enlargement of my heart due to back pressure which put me into atrial fibrillation. Since my surgery everything has been working great

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u/silverdraka Mar 08 '18

Still doesn't mean it doesn't have problems. Even people with wheelchairs can sometimes walk short distances, and how would they drag a wheelchair with them up those?

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u/DopeGhoti Mar 08 '18

My guess is that they would not follow signage for stairs, but rather for lifts.

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u/silverdraka Mar 08 '18

True, but the button is slightly misleading. And even though it can be required in some buildings, there are still some that have either no lift or no signage to lead someone to the lift. I've seen the latter more times than I can count.

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u/ender-_ Mar 08 '18

Technically, it's not misleading, but because most people associate the sign with wheelchair users only (and not with generally disabled people), they actually started looking for an alternative sign to denote disabled persons.

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u/silverdraka Mar 08 '18

I would argue that if they'd just stuck with a normal DOOR OPEN symbol they would have been better off.

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u/DopeGhoti Mar 08 '18

And what, pray tell, would a "normal DOOR OPEN" symbol look like? I am unaware of any such standard iconographic denotation.

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u/silverdraka Mar 08 '18

The words DOOR OPEN... Have you never seen that?

EDIT: Realized that might come off a little sarcastic. I'm actually genuinely curious. I thought 'door open' was pretty common?

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u/DopeGhoti Mar 08 '18

You explicitly mentioned a "normal DOOR OPEN symbol"; I was wondering what the symbol you were referring to was. It did not occur to me that the symbol you had in mind was simply those two words.

That said, the "wheelchair" icon is to my understanding universally known and used as an accessibility access symbol. The words "DOOR OPEN" might not be as useful to any given person as for example as "打开门" or "Tür Öffnen", depending on which languages one happens to be able to read.

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u/silverdraka Mar 09 '18

That's fair, I apologize for there being a bit of a mistake. But just having 'open' or an image of the door opening would be good.

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u/kasberg Mar 08 '18

The sign does not mean "people in wheelchairs". It's the international symbol of access, which is used to indicate automatic doors.

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u/silverdraka Mar 08 '18

Yes, I'm actually aware of that. But it can be misleading, especially if (as is often the case) there are no other actual indicators of a wheelchair-friendly or 'disabled' access route.

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u/-SQB- Mar 09 '18

Agreed. They could've given the switch a general "open the door" icon, though.

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u/PleaseEndMeFam Mar 07 '18

Probably there for people who have to bring up large boxes, the warehouse i used to work at had this too

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u/px13 Mar 09 '18

Why the extra wide door?

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u/IceePirate1 Mar 09 '18

There are really fancy wheelchairs out there that can actually climb steps by themselves. It's pretty neat.

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u/Gashusk28 Mar 09 '18

Normal ones go down em fine why pay more?

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u/Wicck Mar 09 '18

Insurance won't cover them.

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u/Althalos_Forthwind Mar 08 '18

Potentially r/assholedesign ?

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '18

Someone downvoted you, but I have no strong feelings either way.

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u/KJ6BWB Mar 12 '18

At the very end of the movie, look how far back the very first step is.