Disability Accessibility Debate

sucks if you're mobility impaired ( wheelchair ) , and with ADA the costs will be too prohibitive for most locales, so they'll just paint some zebra stripes and put up a flashing light

That's the whole point of disability legislation across the world, including the ADAIf I were to build a new shopping centre, but decided not to put in wheelchair access, would you argue that everyone will suffer from not having access to the shops, and thus it's a lose-lose for everyone?

Not everyone is as able-bodied as you.

It almost always incurs a cost to provide convenience to the handicaps which is why laws have been created so that they are threated equally... For example, do you really need to be able to access this store with your wheel chair? probably not, you could use Amazon.

Don't forget being pregnant or having to lug around a baby after it's born! Which is not an error mode. I'm well aware that "disability" is something we all go through; but my central point stands. It's not possible to accommodate all or even most types of disabilities and its reasonable to expect individual disabled people to BYOH (bring your own helper) in many cases, such as the OP's case of a speech disability wanting to do business over the phone. In other

Is a handicap ramp, pandering to outliers?

Good of you to also accomodate the disabled.

> why should we have to cater to people who aren't normal?Because (in the USA) the ADA exists, and has been shown to help even non disabled people. Elevators were mandated on multi floor buildings because of wheelchairs, but they have a benefit of also being available for non disabled people who have their hands full of groceries.Also, what is “normal” to you won’t be the same as someone else. Is a wheelchair bound person normal? A highly autistic person? What about high fun

Unless you're physically disabled, in which case it seems like a great idea.

Empathy and accessibility. Does it make sense to have a ramp in front of your shop for < 5% customers?