Supermarket workers / Accessibility guru's

[Ripper]

Can anyone give me ideas of the sort of accessibility considerations supermarkets make these days? So far I have wheelchairs being provided, wide tills, lifts to upper floors. Any others i'm missing?

 

[jpmonkey69]

Wheelchair access ramps? Disabled parking bays?

 

[Shimmy]

Disabled trollies - they attach to the wheelchair, and disabled toilets in addition to those above.

 

[waso_dude]

Shopping assistants, helping to reach stuff on higher shelves.

Disabled Loos

Allowance for guide dogs.

 

[Skidder]

at least 10 empty and under-utilised parking spaces

 

[Freelanc3r]

Electric sit on wheelchair things that Elderly people have. Seen a couple of supermarkets with them in.

 

[Rainmaker]

Homework?

 

[pitchfork]

Think about it, when a disabled person goes to do their shopping if it should be on their own, they might drive down there and park in the disabled or wheel down, doesn't matter, wheel in, grab a disabled trolley or a wheelmobile, whack the bags down, do their shopping, ask someone for stuff on high shelves (it's not like you can do anything but that) maybe go upstairs in the lift/ long travelly thing built for taking trolleys up also, go to the chekcouts, if they can't pack the checkout person will, put the bags in, they pay, go, get into their car in the disabled space.
So everything they need really aint it?

It's not like they need wheelchair ramps because supermarkets aren't raised up, well, i've never seen a raised one.

 

[philjohn]

Non-complex language on signage for people with a learning/cognitive impairment.

 

[Ben M]

do your own coursework

 

[starfighter]

Brail on the door handles and also, you know when there is that hearing aid sign, I am sure that means something. they have that, whatever that is.

 

[Rainmaker]

Yeah, an induction loop for hearing aid wearers

 

[Kreeeee]

When I worked at Sainsbury's we had staff walk around with certain disabled people to help them shop by reading labels, reaching goods etc.

 

[Kristoph]

I've got a photo on my phone here of a sign at the customer service desk when I was working in asda.

Says in big blue writing...

"We can label shopping in braille ask here for details"


It's an answer to your question, and it's also funnily ironic at the same time!

 

[Freelanc3r]

I've got a photo on my phone here of a sign at the customer service desk when I was working in asda.

Says in big blue writing...

"We can label shopping in braille ask here for details"


It's an answer to your question, and it's also funnily ironic at the same time!

Lmao! The irony

 

[Muffin`]

When I worked at Sainsbury's we had staff walk around with certain disabled people to help them shop by reading labels, reaching goods etc.

Christ, what a tedious job.

 

[Ripper]

Cheers guys, think I have plenty now. I'm doing a lesson on web accessibility and I just needed some content to help kids relate it to things they might come across so I figured supermarket accessibility would be good.