Public Address | Cafe | Access: GTFO of Our Accessible Bathrooms

linger

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:54:58 +1200

Best-case scenario is that, since the sign isn't parallel with either entrance shown, the sign may have been intended to direct towards a third entrance.
I suppose there wasn't one?

Logan

Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:24:58 +1200

Love to hear your opinion on people like me using accessible loos: I'm non-binary. In almost every place that I try to exist in public, there is no unisex toilet that I can use. I look too masculine for a women's toilet, too feminine for a men's toilet. Often, the…

Chelle Hope

Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:28:30 +1300

There do need to be more facilities for parents with children. More parents’ rooms and/or unisex facilities with room enough to assist children would be good.

I would really like to see people being more considerate, though. The vast majority of people I see using accessible bathrooms exit all apologies…

Hilary Stace

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 12:07:41 +1300

Re disability policy generally. I've just caught up with the news that the Associate Minister with responsibility for the Ministry of Health's Disability Support Services is Julie Anne Genter. So we need to make sure she is on our mailing, advocacy and other relevant lists. Wonder if she knows about…

Rosemary McDonald

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:18:38 +1300

All of the toilets. All of the time. Everywhere.

Yes please. Should be written into the Building Code immediately.

...I predict several million squillion re-runs...

Conjured up similar images to those generated by Polly's rant.

WaterDragon

Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:05:17 +1300

Glad you modified that post Chelle: I have seen far too many posts that assert accessible loos are for wheelchair users only, which is exclusionary of many of the rest of us who may need to use an accessible loo but don't "look" disabled. (always amazes me how many of…

Matthew Hooton

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 21:14:22 +1300

I used the disabled toilets when my daughters were very young. Couldn’t go into the women’s with them, and didn’t want to take them into the men’s. Sorry.

Kim Robinson

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:41:04 +1300

Only if our Mobility Parking card could also be a 'key' to use the accessible toilets.

This way it'll prevent more Aaron Smith incidents.

Chelle Hope

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:50:35 +1300

Good, because you are one of the people I’d hoped to talk to about it. 😂 My email is: if you’d like to flick me a message and then I can go into some detail,

Hilary Stace

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:15:18 +1300

Chelle, would be interested to hear more about your PhD.

Hilary Stace

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 21:14:02 +1300

I was there too (in the arena not the toilets) with the Wellington team, and if I knew what you looked like would have said hi.

Rosemary McDonald

Sun, 03 Dec 2017 11:50:04 +1300

Hah! All part of the eco friendly facilities and clearly they need to cater for hand sanitation for persons of all heights!

The water economies extend to the toilet flushing...no amount of clever water minimization design can cope with the effluvia of Te Araroa trail hikers who have been holding…

Walter Nicholls

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:35:01 +1300

Might also be available through ACC or MOH – I know it is in the catalogue of accessable who are a big provider of such things. I won't even begin to wonder what it would mean for any of you to be assessed as needing one on the public purse,…

Joe Wylie

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:26:53 +1300

Cape Reinga

Cape Reinga ablutions block hand sanitizer dispenser array, C.2012.

Moz

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:55:10 +1300

There's all manner of useful stuff out there

Brilliant! Also, thanks for looking for that for me. I never thought the product would actually exist.

Rosemary McDonald

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:25:40 +1300

Not just for me but for others with varying access needs

Sigh....we kinda gave up recognizing the 'wheelie' symbol denoting accessibility. What the para doing the evaluation for the accreditation considered accessible is not necessarily going to work for the tetraplegic who needs at least one AB in the room…

Rosemary McDonald

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 22:06:52 +1300

....the sucker-cup handles that glaziers use to move sheets of glass would work

Ask, and ye shall receive....

There's all manner of useful stuff out there...an impressive range. However, I never cease to be amazed at how ill informed some of the professionals are as to what is available...or even…

Moz

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:05:24 +1300

I suspect it's been mentioned here, but trying to organise a public event that's accessible is one way that able-bodied people can discover just how frustrating life is for people who need those disabled toilets. Dave Hingsburger is one blogger I follow who periodically writes about how hard it is…

Moz

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:01:25 +1300

Are there wheelchair users who carry a battery powered hammer drill to fix toilets? Or as a less destructive option, the sucker-cup handles that glaziers use to move sheets of glass would work. Probably too heavy for wheel-less disabled folk, but possible worth considering.

I say this as a habitual…

Chelle Hope

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:48:29 +1300

I have actually noticed that even for me some loos, like the ones at my local gym, could ALL be made different levels of accessible depending on my needs at the time. I can get my wheelchair in and out of all of them. I’ve even said as much to…

Anita Easton

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:24:35 +1300

Yes! Grip bars in ordinary cubicles would make them reliably usable for me and I wouldn’t need to take up a wheelchair-able space when the only problem I have is trying to not fall over.

I expect the same would be true if lots of people with balance issues, and…

Chelle Hope

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:32:00 +1300

Thanks very much. Yes, agree wholeheartedly with everything you've said. I feel for parents with their little ones. There need to be better facilities for everybody. I have noticed more dedicated parents' rooms alongside accessible bathrooms but only really in publicly owned buildings in bigger cities. I think we would…

daleaway

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:14:42 +1300

Very well put, Chelle.
I'm a wheelchair user when out and about and I notice this issue all the time – as well as parents with small children using the disabled loo (and not clearing up after their messy little munchkins).

One of the reasons, I believe, is that building…

Anita Easton

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:56:00 +1300

Thank you, and thank you also to Chelle.

This is a real issue; accessible bathrooms are not just extra big extra private bathrooms, some of us really do need them (even if some of us only need them some of the time). It's good to see it rephrased in a…

Russell Brown

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:17:41 +1300

Woah there, this has made me really uncomfortable, which may not have been your intent.

I have a disability, but it is not a visible one. I sometimes need to use a disabled bathroom, and sometimes will be in there for a while.

Thanks Anita. Chelle has heard you and…

Anita Easton

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:09:47 +1300

Woah there, this has made me really uncomfortable, which may not have been your intent.

I have a disability, but it is not a visible one. I sometimes need to use a disabled bathroom, and sometimes will be in there for a while.

It makes me extremely uncomfortable to hear,…

Chelle Hope

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:15:15 +1300

Yes, I was furious with her at the time and with the newspaper. It was an extremely unhelpful piece.

I understand extenuating circumstances but it was just SO uncharitable and counterproductive and yeah, she still should have used a stall. That she didn’t and got an angry reaction as a…

Chelle Hope

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:07:00 +1300

It is indeed a thing. I’ve heard small groups of young women giggling and snapping pics from the other side of the bathroom door, even flashes going off, on quite a few occasions.

Russell Brown

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:43:48 +1300

or if you are using the bathroom, alone or with friends, as a backdrop for a photoshoot for social media – Seriously, WHY do people do this??

This … is a thing?

There are two exceptions, of course: If it is a shared “parents’ room”/accessible facility, which is not ideal…

Public Address

Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:43:48 +1300

Discussion from blog post.