Sunday, February 28, 2016

Restaurants' flouting of accessible toilet law leaves wheelchair users isolated

Here's an article from www.stuff.co.nz which clearly illustrates factors which cause occupational deprivation, in this case going out for a erin and a meal.

Restaurants and cafes are routinely excluding wheelchair users and other disabled people from going out with loved ones by ignoring laws on accessible toilets, a disabled advocate says. 
By law, buildings used by the public must be accessible to disabled people.
But this only applies to new work or alterations, so many restaurants, cafes and pubs get around it by simply avoiding renovations, said Phillip Blundell, chairman of CCS Disability Action's Wellington branch.