[Accessibility] questions about tagging for disability/accessibility mapping

assistieren at gmx.de assistieren at gmx.de
Sat Oct 31 11:20:42 UTC 2015


Hi Gabor Vid,

> toilets:wheelchair and wheelchair:toilets

I GUESS this means the wheelchair-accessibility of toilets (that can be
used by anyone) versus the accessibility of additional, separated
toilets for wheelchair users only. In praxi: In our town public toilets
for women are often wheelchair-accessible while those for men are not.
So wheelchair users of any gender or sex have to use the
"women-only-toilets". This can be quite an issue. Somewhere else you
might have three types of toilets: women and men, which are not
wheelchair-accessible, and wheelchair-accessible, which should be used
by wheelchair-users only. (A question of hygiene, as well, for example
for people who have to catheterize themselves or need this room for
other medical procedures).

> entrance:width and wheelchair:entrance_width

Quite often wheelchair users cannot use the main entrance and so there
is often a special entrance for wheelchair users. The properties of this
special entrance MIGHT be meant here.

> 
> 
> wheelchair:entrance_door (manual or automatic) and door (manual or
> automatic) and automatic_door (yes or no)
> 
> 
> wheelchair:step_height (563 times) or step.height (748 times) or
> step:height (368 times)

With those I am not sure as well, but I personal often have the problem,
that we cannot pass "steps" that "walkers" don't even realize as steps.
For example the 3cm between board and street. So this might be a
question of perspective as well. For walkers this is irrelevant to even
talk about a step, for us it is a barrier we cannot pass.

Best regards,
Elke



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