Access denied?
- 31 Aug 06, 2:31 PM
We don't need to tell you that despite the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act becoming law in 2004, a large number of UK venues are still inaccessible to people with disabilities. How frustrating is it to not be able to access a particular public building, making it impossible to catch your favourite band or the latest blockbuster movie? Or even worse, to be left waiting outside a venue because you couldn't get the correct information regarding accessibility before you went?
aims to address this. The website, founded by Patricia Froomberg, gives its users a platform to either scathe or praise venues for their accessibility. It also hopes to make the owners of inaccessible venues sit up and take notice.
There's already a pretty big database of venues on the site so as well as adding your own reviews, good or bad, you can check out your chosen place before you go. They're searchable by venue name, location or category. Hotels, public buildings, gig venues, restaurants, shops - you name it, it's probably covered.
Check the place out before you go:
Comments
Looks great if you're a Londoner...
Well as this is a brand new site it has to start somewhere! - so how about lots and lots of genuine posts from all over the UK? It will be so useful to so many people.
What a great DIY idea! Now it means whenever I go somewhere, I would have to remember to log my thoughts on service levels there......
Karlikurod4
What a great site, you need to see it to believe it, it is what we need. Thank you Patricia, you need a bigger medal than your MBE as it is what we have been waiting for. Thank you
What a great site. The more people who write about where they go, the more option's we have available to us! I Love it!!!