The New Waitrose Credit Card Machines
They obviously weren’t designed by someone with a gammy hand. The old one where you just pushed the card into the slot worked well for me, but I can’t slide my card through the reader with the left.
I bet the system wasn’t designed by someone with a brain.
Incidentally, the script on many card machines says “Do not remove the card” and then changes it to “Remove the card”. If your eyesight isn’t good, like mine is at times, you can get a bit mixed-up and take the card out too early, as you see the word “Remove”.
The Anonymous Widower 
I wouldnt be able to manage those either, if we get them I will ask the check out lady to do it for me, explaining why. If enough people do this, word will get back to the powers that be, in a better way than writing a letter.
Most people when they design these things dont give thought to people with disability, I have come across disabled toilets which arent wheelchair accessible, lifts which are too small to take a mobility scooter, lifts and doors which you cant open when in a mobility scooter!
And Marks and Spencers. Whose store layouts are impossible to get around if you arent able to walk around. It is common to seem someone in a self propelled chair or a scooter stuck in the middle of a display.
M&S staff have had many lectures from me on the subject, and I have offered to trial store displays with a scooter.
Trafford Centre is by far the worst, and it is in a mall with the best disabled facilities I have encountered.
Comment by liz | November 3, 2010 |
I’d be interested to have you views on the ARC Shopping Centre in Bury St. Edmunds. It certainly seems easy to me, as it’s all on one level.
http://www.arc-burystedmunds.com/index.php
Carluccio’s there also has an outside cafe under large parasols. I think though, I’ve seen scooters inside.
Comment by AnonW | November 3, 2010 |
having been on the website, the facilities for disabled visitors who bring their own scooters/chairs are good – although I do think the place needs more toilet blocks generally, but that is just me. They do have toilets with hoists in, which is important for people who are profoundly disabled, which is great, they arent that common, TC and Manchester have one, but I am pretty sure Stockport doesnt.
I dont know what the flooring is like, if is completely smooth like TC main malls, it is great, if it is like the flooring in some of Barton Square part of TC, it isnt as good, that is concrete and paving etc and is very bumpy, and can be quite uncomfortable – Barton Square isnt bad, but some places are. There are parts of Manchester which are cobbled, and they are awful!
What it lacks at first sight is a shopmobility where visitors can hire scooters or chairs – many modern cars will not fit both a scooter and back seat passengers. My scooter is an “off road” one that I can use in country lanes and unmade up roads, with four wheels not three, and doesnt fold into a flat size like some of the shopper ones you can buy.
However, they may well be a shopmobility in Bury St Edmunds already, I am guessing this place is similar to malls in various towns up here, rather than like TC.
Comment by liz | November 3, 2010 |