[misc.handicap] "Disability" helps everyone!

Greg.See-Kee@f631.n712.z3.fidonet.org (Greg See-Kee) (06/29/90)

Index Number: 8997

>>This is another example how we disabled people can "help"
>>business to be MORE  successful - by expanding the options for
>>EVERYONE!
     
 EA> I was reminded of this just recently when our local City replaced
 EA> many of the corner-curbs in our neighborhood with curb-cuts.

 EA> Examples:
     
 EA> 1) bicyclists easily enter a bike path

 EA> 2) harm's way by taking his bike up on the sidewalk via a cut;

 EA> 3) Of course, little kids, and mothers with strollers, love them.
     
 EA> When things are designed with disability in mind, they tend to be
 EA> more useful for everyone.

More examples:

     4) Delivery men with barrows & trolleys
     5) Cars that need to be pushed out of the intersection
     6) Frail & disabled peoplle with quad-sticks
     7) Children on tricycles etc
     8) Persons with wheeled shopping trolleys
     9) Workmen with work-trailers

And in the area of computers, even more things are there,
waintingto be moved from "Just-for-disabilty" to "For Everyone".

It has been said that the typewriter was invented because of the
needs of a disabled person.   Now look what has happened -
they've invented computer keyboards!

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