We Care...Access for Persons with Disabilities: 04/03/09

Friday, April 3, 2009

Toilet at Bukit Jambul Shopping Complex

Sekarang kita tinjau kat tandas di Bukit Jambul Shopping complex. Daripada perbualan dengan beberapa orang rakan...akhirnya saya setuju bahawa kemudahan tandas awam yang disediakan amatlah tidak mesra pengguna terutamanya golongan kurang upaya. Gambar di bawah ni diambil dari pintu masuk ke tandas ni...nah lihatlah sendiri...tandas untuk OKU terletak nun jauh di hujung sana. Tak boleh ke tandas OKU tu diletakkan berdekatan dengan pintu masuk ke...senang sikit mereka nak guna kan..takyah la sampai nak masuk ke dalam lagi...tapi kan rata2 tempat la...kalau mereka tak sediakan tandas OKU di tempat yang berasingan mesti keadaan serupa camni...kenape agaknye yer...?

Satu lagi masalahnye kat sini...pintu tandas OKU ni kena tolak masuk ke dalam tandas. Untuk pengetahuan semua...ruang dalam tandas ni takde la luas sangat pun...cukup2 untuk pusingkan kerusi roda boleh la agaknye...tapi kalau dah pintunye ditolak masuk ke dalam tandas cam ni alamatnya bertambah tak luas la ruang kat dalam tandas tu.

Sekarang ni pula kita tengok kat pintu tu...gambar kunci pintu...kalau seperti yang dimaklumkan oleh Miss Tan Chin Chin...kunci pintu ni memberi kesusahan sikit bagi golongan OKU walaupun tidak semua...(bergantung kepada jenis kecacatan.) Rasanya perlu ditukar la kot supaya tandas yang disediakan ni betul2 mesra OKU.

Gambar kat bawah ni pula jenis tombol yang terdapat di bahagian luar tandas.

hanya terdapat 1 pemegang besi yang disediakan...accessible ke ni?

ruang tandas yang agak sempit.

Jom kita tengok Kemudahan kat NAZA hotel, Penang

Hi everyone, come and take a look at this lift...i capture this picture when i went for dinner last weekend..he3

The lift provided is without embossed indicator...

and now, this picture is taken when i inside this lift...No braille number. It is just normal number. hhmmm...

but here...the handrail...? aha...they realize that they should provide facilities for disabled people but what have they done is not enough.

For your information, our function is at 1 level...and i couldn't find any toilet for disabled people there. Yet they have a toilet there but i guess the space is very narrow.

Help us to help them...

We are final year students from School of Social Science majoring in Anthropology & Sosiology. This blog is to share some knowledge and the idea about the accessibility for persons with disabilities. We try to concern on every single places and areas especially at the commercial buildings. We hope that through this blog we can produce conciousness among the community about the importance to provide the comfortable, convenience and applicable facilities for persons with disabilities especially the corporate community. We welcome your opinion, comment and suggestion...Together we share and care about this issue...Help us to keep them smiling...

Accessibility

Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product (e.g., device, service, environment) is accessible by as many people as possible.

Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" the functionality, and possible benefit, of some system or entity.

Accessibility is often used to focus on people with disabilities and their right of access to entities, often through use of assistive technology.

Several definitions of accessibility refer directly to access-based individual rights laws and regulations. Products or services designed to meet these regulations are often termed Easy Access or Accessible.

Accessibility is not to be confused with usability which is used to describe the extent to which a product (e.g., device, service, environment) can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction in a specified context of use.

Accessibility is strongly related to universal design when the approach involves "direct access." This is about making things accessible to all people (whether they have a disability or not). -wikipedia-

Disability

Disability is a lack of ability relative to a personal or group standard or norm. In reality there is often simply a spectrum of ability. Disability may involve physical impairment such as sensory impairment, cognitive or intellectual impairment, mental disorder (also known as psychiatric or psychosocial disability), or various types of chronic disease. A disability may occur during a person's lifetime or may be present from birth.

Disability may be seen as resulting directly from individuals, in which case the focus is typically on aspects of those individuals and how they could function better. This view is associated with what is generally termed a medical model of disability. Alternatively, the interaction between people and their environment/society may be emphasized. Here, the focus may be on the role of society in labeling some people as having a disability relative to others, while causing or maintaining disability in those people through attitudes and standards of accessibility that favor the majority (a prejudice dubbed "able-ism"). This view is commonly associated with a human rights or social model of disability. -wikipedia-