I don’t see why that isn’t doable. The gap as you say is tiny. I don’t know a wheelchair user who couldn’t do the tiniest of wheelies and lift their front castors over the gap. 🤷🏻♂️
Other than power chair users or people who can't wheelie. Shouldn't be up to us to put ourselves in danger to use a public amenity that could easily have been designed to be safe and accessible from the outset.
@@MIKSCARLETI think you’re going some to call that a “danger” personally. I’m all for things being more accessible, but i’m also for finding ways to make things work in the knowledge that the world will never be completely accessible. I think said tiny gap falls under the later. A freewheel sorts it if you can’t manage the tiniest of front caster hops. Might just be the way I was brought up. To “find a way” rather than expecting the world to always work for me. I think there is a balance to be had.
@@QWERTYOP80 then you are privileged but not everyone has that ability. A little wheelie for you can be Mount Everest or the Moon to other people. From following Mik on Twitter I’ve learned that he’s not a meany old fart expecting the world to bend around him, he’s a person who has endured a lot of pain, currently recovering from surgery, for whom that tiny gap for you might as well be the Grand Canyon. Having that gap serves absolutely no purpose and absolutely no thought has been made about those who might not be able to use the charging point due to being in a wheelchair and not wishing to injure themselves. What you are saying is as crass as if a medically blind person with less blurry residual sight than I was to say it is easy to read a road name, or I with my blurry remaining sight told a person with prosthetic eyes that seeing a gap in a hedge where a gate is is simple as there’s more light in that area. Get out of your bubble and realise that everyone has different access needs and we all need to be equally included.
@QWERTYOP80 So (according to you) rather than rectifying a clear design flaw that could easily be done, wheelchair users should be prepared to become stunt drivers in order to access amenities that are supposed to be accessible to all? Is this how you expect everyone to behave in the face of ridiculous design/instalation flaws. Oops the electrician has wired in the electrical outlet 1 metre above the kitchen worktop. Never mind, I'll just plug my kettle into an extension lead and use a stepladder to switch on the outlet! Or you could get the electrician to fix the obvious problem.
I don’t see why that isn’t doable. The gap as you say is tiny. I don’t know a wheelchair user who couldn’t do the tiniest of wheelies and lift their front castors over the gap. 🤷🏻♂️
Other than power chair users or people who can't wheelie. Shouldn't be up to us to put ourselves in danger to use a public amenity that could easily have been designed to be safe and accessible from the outset.
@@MIKSCARLETI think you’re going some to call that a “danger” personally. I’m all for things being more accessible, but i’m also for finding ways to make things work in the knowledge that the world will never be completely accessible. I think said tiny gap falls under the later. A freewheel sorts it if you can’t manage the tiniest of front caster hops. Might just be the way I was brought up. To “find a way” rather than expecting the world to always work for me. I think there is a balance to be had.
@@QWERTYOP80 then you are privileged but not everyone has that ability. A little wheelie for you can be Mount Everest or the Moon to other people. From following Mik on Twitter I’ve learned that he’s not a meany old fart expecting the world to bend around him, he’s a person who has endured a lot of pain, currently recovering from surgery, for whom that tiny gap for you might as well be the Grand Canyon.
Having that gap serves absolutely no purpose and absolutely no thought has been made about those who might not be able to use the charging point due to being in a wheelchair and not wishing to injure themselves.
What you are saying is as crass as if a medically blind person with less blurry residual sight than I was to say it is easy to read a road name, or I with my blurry remaining sight told a person with prosthetic eyes that seeing a gap in a hedge where a gate is is simple as there’s more light in that area.
Get out of your bubble and realise that everyone has different access needs and we all need to be equally included.
@QWERTYOP80 So (according to you) rather than rectifying a clear design flaw that could easily be done, wheelchair users should be prepared to become stunt drivers in order to access amenities that are supposed to be accessible to all?
Is this how you expect everyone to behave in the face of ridiculous design/instalation flaws. Oops the electrician has wired in the electrical outlet 1 metre above the kitchen worktop. Never mind, I'll just plug my kettle into an extension lead and use a stepladder to switch on the outlet! Or you could get the electrician to fix the obvious problem.