accessibility at York

alright so finally i remembered my password to post a blog. I wanted to discuss what we did a couple of weeks ago, when we did our exercise on the accessibility at York. The exercise did in fact bring to mind at how difficult it was for students to get around when faced with the limitation of a wheelchair. The first point i would like to discuss is that fact that almost everyone did mention the fact that they were gonna stress the physical disabilities, when discussing the limitations in the building. what i found interesting from this is, I believe that people are more likely to see a disability as a physical one because it is one that they can more so understand than if a person was suffering from blindness, deafness, or even a reading disability. A person in a wheelchair is one that is so easily identifiable by the public because it is such a visual disability. so does that mean they have it the worst? or is it just an availability heuristic (sorry a bit of psych lingo there) meaning that is what we first think of when thinking of a person with a disability.

Something else i would like to says is, is this building really as bad as we made it out to be? we only concentrated on the negatives, where at the same time there were many positives that this building had to ensure the accessibility in this space we call university. things could be worse there could be no ramps, no electronic doors, or no extra spaces for people to put their wheelchair when learning in class. At the same time as being equalistic, which York and everyone want to be (to people with disabilities) one has to be realistic. It is the compromising and understanding of individual needs in spaces that must be addressed, to make the experience at York a friendly one for all.