Are you disabled? Do you have trouble accessing businesses and retail outlets?                                  

Part 3 of the Disability Discrimination Act became law in October 2004 and requires that service providers must take reasonable steps to overcome barriers to access. Significantly, the Act does not require providers to give details of any improvements they make to accessibility.

In consequence, a disabled person wishing to purchase specific goods must study local advertisements or classified directories and prepare a list of appropriate providers. They must then make precautionary enquiries hoping to find one on the list whose services are accessible to someone suffering from their particular impairment. Such enquiries will be time consuming, potentially embarrassing and may well prove fruitless.

PROPOSED SOLUTION All providers should be required to publish information describing the accessibility of their services in such a manner that a person suffering from one of the impairments included in the Act may determine, without visiting the premises concerned, whether that service is likely to be accessible. Click below for a list of access symbols and their meanings currently recognised world wide.

The aim of the above proposal might be described as ‘For all to See’ or, for brevity, 4all2C.

Contact:

Individuals or organisations wishing to support this scheme are invited to contact:

info@4all2c.com

Links:

For more information visit:

http://www.information-britain.co.uk

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople

                                                   Click here to see Disability Access Symbols currently in use