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This is for something I'm writing. The character uses a manual wheelchair. She's visiting an office and is impressed by how accessible it is, unlike pretty much the entire rest of the world. What features can it have that she'd notice?
It's a New York security agency which she's visiting as a client, but she can also notice ways in which it's accessible for anyone who works there as well. None of the current employees are physically disabled, so she'd be seeing the potential rather than noticing someone else navigating it in a wheelchair.
It's a New York security agency which she's visiting as a client, but she can also notice ways in which it's accessible for anyone who works there as well. None of the current employees are physically disabled, so she'd be seeing the potential rather than noticing someone else navigating it in a wheelchair.
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One supplementary point nobody else has raised: one particular environment has to be properly designed for disabled people in general and wheelchair users in particular—nursing homes!
Pretty much all the affordances described by other folks below (except desk/work/office-specific fixtures like variable-height/wheelchair accessible desks) feature in a nursing home, because if they don't (a) they're in breach of regulations and stand to lose their certification (and customer base), and (b) most of the residents can't function without them. Sliding doors? Check. Low-resistance carpet or high-grip floor? Check. Disabled toilets dimensioned for wheelchair users plus helpers? Check. Good lighting and high-contrast colour schemes? Check. And so on.
So if you get a chance to visit a nursing/rehab/care home, maybe take some notes?