According to a report in the Lincolnshire Live, A UK supermarket chain has been urged to change the signage on its accessible toilets to reflect the invisible nature of some health conditions.
Do you think this change be beneficial and something that you’d like to see on all accessible toilets nationwide?
Asda already does this, at least around here they do. Might help but from working in retail i know a lot of people don’t read signs. I think its a good thing and might help if a person with a disability is shouted at for using the toilet, just point to the sign. Me, I just yell back
Interesting, I wasn’t aware that Asda used these signs but it’s encouraging to see and perhaps change perceptions of and anxieties for people with hidden disabilities use accessible toilets.
I’d say so. I’ve had to use a disabled toilet a couple of times and always wonder if someone will say something as I’m not in a chair. Do I think it would stop this? No, but just pointing up to the sign would hopefully lead to some reflection on what disability represents.
Off the subject a little, but I’ve always hated the ‘ladies’ sign. Why should a female sign have to wear a skirt. I get it that it’s about differentiation but could it not have been updated a little from the 1950s? And on a similar note, how is it that an accessible loo can be unisex but able bodied loos are not?
Sue (sorry in a whinging and whining mode) (btw the first time I wrote whinging and wining, guess what I’m off to do?)
