[image description: two men crouch down to use a significantly lowered ATM machine]
If you ever feel like you’ve fucked up just remember that a whole TEAM of people designed this cash machine to be 15 inches off the ground and no one along the way thought ‘maybe this has a design flaw’
“Cash machine”
Yes. Here in the UK people call them cash machines, I know that’s an odd concept to get your head around but I think together we can do it
actually thats really handy for folk like me, just saying
yea, i just love how something that inconveniences abled people is considered a flaw, but something that is literally exclusive of disabled people, to the point where it renders us unable to do these things without help [if at all], is just considered the norm; there’s no pictures of ATM’s that are way too tall or made without braille, broken elevators, completely inaccessible entrances, &etc. floating around on this site, referring to them as flawed [or, lets call it what it really is: morally reprehensible], because abled people have the world so tailored to their needs, they don’t even see that shit – and when they do, they just shrug their shoulders and think, ”eh, oh well”.
i’d love to line up all the people who used that and ask them ”gee, isn’t it extremely hard – not to mention, humiliating – to use something that is so obviously made for everyone not like you, that they didn’t even care how it would affect you? now take the 15 seconds you spent at that machine and apply to the whole fucking world.”
(this is in nottingham I think, apparently it’s ending up this height because it’s on a hill – they should deffinitly have considered this though)
I remember my lecturer telling us last year that cash machines in this country had had to be lowered when disability acts came in (and I suppose in theory this is meant to have happened country wide, but likely hasn’t)
however, 380 mm (15inchs) is considered the minimum confortable height reach from a wheelchair for design purposes (useful for plug sockets and such) the max reach is 1220mm (48’’) going forwards and I think cash machines are meant to be at about 40’’? but that be where the screen is supposed to be/supposed to be visible from (arm rests on a wheel chair are about 30’’ for reference). So I think this particular cash machine is going to be more of a problem than a help, though wheel chair users are obviously not the only consideration with disability accessability am I missing a group where 15’’ is needed? but for wheelchair users, people on crutches and elderly people for example I think this is equally, if not more, unusable to one that’s too high (this one contrivenes the part of the building regs that deals with disability access just as much as one that’s too high – not that people don’t keep building stuff that doesn’t follow the bear minimum contained in the regs even though they shouldn’t be ><)
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