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SavannahLion:
In my office building, they're tearing apart the restrooms because a passageway hook in some of them was deemed too narrow for wheel chair access. Nevermind that I have never seen a disabled person actually have problems accessing and navigating this hook.
In any case, this got me to thinking about arcades. When I was younger, arcades were much tighter on the floor plan. Many of the ones I frequented had just enough room between cabs for a player at each cab and a third person to just squeeze through. Wheel chair access be damned. The arcade in Tron is a pretty good example of the kind I frequented. Nowadays, most arcades I frequent (of the few there are) have so much distance in between rows of cabs you can probably drive a mini between them. Even when you account for the large cabs like DDR, there's an awful lot of wasted space that could be better dedicated over to more cabs.
But then I realized that a vast majority of American made cabinets from any era are not going to be ADA complaint no matter what. Their controls are too high, there's no room for the chair, some older cabs have their monitors set high and nearly horizontal so any one too low can't see it anyways. And one can forget about a lot of the motion feed back cabs and DDR type stuff or the cabs that require foot pedal input.
So has anyone ever heard of an arcade getting nailed for non-ADA compliance? I mean, I don't think any arcade owner can reasonably comply unless they get a whole bunch of Japanese Candy cabs and make their whole arcade look like a fricken McDonalds.
FrizzleFried:
This wasn't a problem when arcades were big time (1978-1984) as the ADA was created in 1990...
Ed_McCarron:
Besides, the games aren't part of the building. Do desks have to be ADA compliant? Office chairs? I assume its just the permanent fixtures.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: FrizzleFried on June 13, 2009, 10:36:03 am ---This wasn't a problem when arcades were big time (1978-1984) as the ADA was created in 1990...
--- End quote ---
I'm talking about current arcades. I don't know of very many arcades from pre-'84 that are still around.
Malenko:
not to sound like a --missioncontrol--, but how many wheelchair bound people complain they cant get to the DDR machine?
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