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some but not all cool things nobody ever thinks of:

put hand sanitizer or a sink in the accessible bathroom stall, or alcohol wipes outside of it. people who cannot use their legs have to use unwashed hands to roll to the sink, and people who can use their legs are afraid to walk out of stalls because they get harassed and even assaulted.

enough space for wheelchair in doorway…AND ARMS. HOW DO YOU THINK THE WHEELCHAIR MOVES! if I cannot roll through it without scraping my arms it is not accessible

brick paths suck the end

gravel paths suck. make it smooth

a ramp is not accessible if it is too steep. not every wheelchair user is ripped enough or capable of using muscles enough to propel themselves up a steep angle safely. some wheelchair users have heart issues. you want heart attacks? this is how you get them

perfect 90 degree turns suck and are often impossible to turn through

some wheelchairs have foot rests. account for them

wheelchair accessible means wheelchair accessible while alone. if you expect someone to have to be helped out to use your facility, that is not acceptable or accessible

There isn’t adequate space to open the door while in a wheelchair.

Your door is impossible to close while in a wheelchair.

Your door requires a weirdly high amount of hand dexterity.

Your door is too heavy. It’s so stiff. It’s impossible to see someone struggling with it and people open it into the wheelchair user from the inside because it’s too heavy and they didn’t see them there.

a weirdly high amount of

hand dexterity.

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

H.G. Wells

George Orwell

(George) Orson Welles

Orson Scott Card

Here's a sneaky peek, and you can find the link HERE.

It’s when something is RIGHT above your eyebrows. Safely out of peripheral vision, and you thought you ducked, but didn’t duck far enough, OR you just weren’t paying attention and didn’t get the visual memo because WRONG SIDE FOR GOOD PERIPHERAL, and you go THUNK.

And it is NOT THE FEEL GOODS

The absolute WORST is a short door on STAIRS.

It’s tall enough on the stairs.

But when you step on the DOOR stair - THUNK - ducking miscalculated.

If you're wondering how this is possible, by the way, imagine a conversation between four friends. One says, "cheesecake is a cake." It's in the name: they're not wrong.

I say, "no. Anyone who's ever baked can tell you it's a pie. Look up how to make a key lime or chocolate mousse pie, it's literally the same thing." And it's true: like these pies, cheesecake has a batter that's poured into a graham cracker crust and its consistency is smooth, rather than going directly into a pan and having a crumb. I'm not wrong.

The third person says "just for the sake of argument, let's consider: cheesecake is a pizza." This person is trying to stimulate thought and debate by pointing out the similarities in the two seemingly-disparate foods (round pie-shaped crust with open face topped with cheese, baked, can have other toppings, both foods are associated with a specific side of the sweet/savory dichotomy but can actually be both). They're not wrong! In the end, this answer is about creating further questions in order to more fully answer the first question.

The fourth person looks at the top of the cheesecake and says "it looks like a giant mushroom* so it's a fungus."

One of these people has an answer that's so far out of the realm of reality it may have just been nominated for a Hugo Award, and it's not the pizza answer.

And that is how you can have no right answers—the first three answers here are all different interpretations that can be strongly backed up— but you can definitely have a wrong one.

“Is the writing bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot”