• @[email protected]
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    410 months ago

    Yeah… I’m surprised by how commonly people repost this everywhere.

    If you want to include them, they can also sit across from the bench… Or next to it

  • @[email protected]
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    710 months ago

    Just freaking make single chairs. Stop making weird benches. If you want a bench, make a bench. Someone might lay on it. If you don’t want a bench, Christ on a cracker, don’t make a weird bench! Just make chairs!

  • Queen HawlSera
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    410 months ago

    Sometimes the dumbest things are done by thoughtful people “Just trying to help”

  • JackbyDev
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    311 months ago

    So, I like the idea of trying to make wheel chair users be included, I do, but this doesn’t actually do anything for them. If it had a little table or something similar then at least they could argue that it might help them despite being obvious hostile design. But no. It’s just ✨accessible✨.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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      311 months ago

      And the backing will keep wheelchairs with handles from backing in fully.

      It’s purely anti-homeless masquerading as social awareness. Disgusting and the product of a sick mind.

  • @[email protected]
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    2411 months ago

    Yeah, it’s possible/probable that it was a dick move by some planning committee. But if I were wheelchair bound, I could imagine that being a) acknowledged and b) in the middle — instead of always off to the side — could be nice.

    • @[email protected]
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      4211 months ago

      How many wheelchair users have backless chairs? Like, this isn’t even a good design if it WAS actually intended for them. With that back part any wheelchair user would end up sitting slightly forward from the people sitting on the actual bench seat, possibly a good 6+ inches forward if it bumps into the handles on the back.

    • @[email protected]
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      7611 months ago

      No, you see, it’s not a full chair, just the backrest. Just in case their wheelchair backrest needs to rest.

      • @[email protected]
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        1611 months ago

        Oh, and here i was thinking they found a way to cut costs on wheelchairs by removing the backs – necessitating these backless-wheelchair-accessible-wheelchair-backs for those that need to give their backs a break.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          Backless and low back wheelchairs are definitely a thing, though fortunately not for cost savings, but for better mobility for the user.

          If you have really good T-spine mobility and control, it can sometimes be beneficial to get rid of the back of your chair, giving you more range to twist, turn, and lean from the hips.

          With enough upper body strength, If you go for a lightweight no back chair with tip wheels, strap in, and get some durable gloves, you can even do full cartwheels in a wheelchair.

          Obviously whether a backless chair is appropriate is very individual and a physiotherapist and occupational therapist will need to help assess.

    • @[email protected]
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      3511 months ago

      You know what wheelchair users also sometimes like to do in the middle of a long day?

      Fucking lie down.

    • @[email protected]
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      They do, though. Most tables don’t sport the room underneath to allow a wheelchair, this if one goes out for dining, one needs to transfer to a regular chair.

      If possible ofc, but it sincerely limits the scope of restaurants you can visit if you can’t switch seats.

      • @[email protected]
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        811 months ago

        i always wondered why the arms of wheelchairs weren’t adjustable/removable. It seems like it would be a smart thing to implement. I can move my office chair arms up and down, forward and backwards, i even have about 30° of rotation available

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          Can you put boxes of pounds of force on your office chair’s adjustable arm along different vectors without it moving as you use it to get in and out of the chair without your legs?

  • @[email protected]
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    2911 months ago

    A wheelchair’s backrest does not have zero depth, so with this design the rollchair user has to sit slightly in front of the people on the left and right. Utter shit.

  • baduhai
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    2511 months ago

    This feels like a disguised way to not let people sleep on the bench.