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TOK:
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 13, 2009, 11:14:38 am ---not to sound like a --missioncontrol--, but how many wheelchair bound people complain they cant get to the DDR machine?
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Exactly. The only experience I have with compliance is chemical stuff (MSDS), but there has to be some reasonable limit to the accessibility law, I'd imagine entrances, emergency exits and restrooms.
The fact that you need full function of all your faculties to play most arcade machines should preclude them from being governed in exactly the same way a skateboard park would. Their entrances and bathrooms might need to be accessible, but that'd be it, right?
Paul Olson:
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 13, 2009, 11:14:38 am ---not to sound like a --missioncontrol--, but how many wheelchair bound people complain they cant get to the DDR machine?
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I'm guessing it is a similar percentage to the number of blind people who use drive up ATMs.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: Paul Olson on June 13, 2009, 08:16:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: Malenko on June 13, 2009, 11:14:38 am ---not to sound like a --missioncontrol--, but how many wheelchair bound people complain they cant get to the DDR machine?
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I'm guessing it is a similar percentage to the number of blind people who use drive up ATMs.
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Which is apparently an astonishingly lare number since every drive up ATM on Earth seem to have braille.
--- Quote from: TOK on June 13, 2009, 05:57:41 pm ---The fact that you need full function of all your faculties to play most arcade machines should preclude them from being governed in exactly the same way a skateboard park would. Their entrances and bathrooms might need to be accessible, but that'd be it, right?
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That's what I'm wondering. IIRC the city pool (I try to avoid it as much as possible) has ADA access right up until you get to the edge of the pool. I wonder if the same requirement must be said of the skateboard park and/or arcade? You need to give them access right up to the entertainment. What they do with that entertainment is left up to them?
So I guess the cabs fall under the same mechanism as skateboard parks and fair/park thrill rides. Reasonable accommodations need to be made but nothing can be done if the very avenue requires some function to be enjoyable. Like the blind at a movie theatre. Plaster braille all over the place, not going to change the fact that they're still not going to see the movie.
dgame:
Think of it from this perspective:
The people in wheelchairs should at least be able to travel through the place.
If a parent or friend needs a wheelchair shouldn’t they be able to accompany their child or friend to the arcade/skate park/ swimming pool?
Not being able to play the DDR machine is one thing, but everyone should be able to get to it to watch others play.
FrizzleFried:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on June 13, 2009, 11:01:49 am ---
--- 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...
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I'm talking about current arcades. I don't know of very many arcades from pre-'84 that are still around.
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I didn't know there were any current arcades?! :)
The only ones I know of are the "Boomers" Putt-Putt places, etc... and I'm sure they're ADA compliant.
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