Human Rights at UPEI

Barriers to people with disabilities are civil and human rights abuses

Archive for August 21st, 2008

Removing disabled parking is wrong – disabled don’t live in Disney World

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Arguments have been put forward that the decision to remove accessible parking from the UPEI campus is an improvement in accessibility.

 

 

Simple logic tells us that reasoning is wrong. Forcing people with a disability to walk further is not better for them: it’s worse.

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