Mark & Juanita wrote:

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:26:54 -0400, "Upscale" wrote:

"World Traveler" wrote in message news:7Z_xe.15717

Hats off to our local BORG -- Our HD has electric carts for those that
need
them, and at least one person on the sales staff uses a powered
wheelchair.
HD is very good about providing services to handicapped customers, and
also
very good at hiring staff with special needs as well.

Agreed. One of the HD stores I go to has at least two wheelchairs
available for those that need it and at least one person working there who
uses a wheelchair. He works in the woodworking tools section. The
washrooms there are wheelchair accessible too. This is Canada I'm talking
about so there aren't any ADA rules in effect to guarantee this stuff, at
least not yet.

Upscale,

Just out of curiosity, have you had any significant issues with
places not accomodating wheelchairs, despite not having an ADA type act?
I ask because I would expect that most businesses would make reasonable
accomodations just as good business. Having been involved in a
construction project at one church where the number of required
handicapped spaces was absurd relative to our known requirements, and now
being involved in another construction project at a different congregation
where, if we follow the rules for the building capacity, we will be
ridiculously under our requirements for such accomodations, I have found
that the "big hammer solves all problems" approach of government fiat is
not always the best approach to solving problems.



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If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough


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First, it's not about the walk to the HD inside and out, it's about the
weather. They put handicapped people closer to the door as some handicaps
take longer to get in and out of vehicles. The same amount of time it
takes someone from the farthest spot to get to the door, the handicapped
person may just be getting to the door.
My father worked with a (Mostly) quadraplegic person at IBM (say Hyatt
accident) and they verified that the place they were having a meeting was
handicapped accessible (before A.D.A), the place said yes. When they got
there they found out you needed a room key to swipe open ALL the restrooms.
One of the managers called the hotel management and said they left a
deposit outside the door. This whole get together was supposed to be about
making computers more accessible (the Hyatt really brought to their
attention).