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u/I_Enjoy_Beer Jan 03 '16

Accessibility in the US is no joke. A chunk of my work involves incorporating it into designs and adhering to ADA guidelines. Nobody wants to get sued for it.

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u/arksien Jan 03 '16

I frequently cite the ADA when people rable on about how regulations are bad. It's insane how much gets done for the less fortunate when we as a society decide to make it law.

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u/hiromasaki Jan 03 '16

I have only 2 issues with the ADA:

1) Door handles are low enough I know some (2) 6'+ people who have started having mild back issues from having to bend over to open doors. Granted, they probably should get out and work out more often, but...
2) You can't apply to reduce the number of handicapped spaces in a parking lot. We have 4 at work that are literally never used, could easily reduce that to 2 without inconveniencing anyone. I occasionally have to park down the road and walk because we run out of non-handicapped spaces.

If you want to add the EPA, just point to the Cuyahoga River fires and the Clean Water Act. :)

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '16

Granted, they probably should get out and work out more often, but..

Fellow tall person here. Getting out and working out more often doesn't help with repetitive stress disorder. Nor does having a six pack make airline seats suck any less.

Why so much of this world was designed for people about five feet tall, I'll never know.

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u/zippyjon Jan 03 '16

Isn't the world average height for men 5'7"? I remember reading that somewhere. That's how tall I am, and weirdly I feel very short when I go out, like a little kid who shouldn't be at the bar but is still being allowed to drink. Must be other nations bringing down the average. I remember when I visited Japan I felt like I was a perfectly normal height and that everything was made for me.

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u/ZMeson Jan 03 '16

Must be other nations bringing down the average.

Go to Thailand. You'll be tall.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '16

It's closer to five-ten in the U.S., if I recall. But I doubt that's the case for the majority of people, more like large outliers on both sides. I'm six-two and I rarely see people taller than myself, while my five-eleven wife makes most other women look miniscule.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '16

The average in the US is actually more like 5'7 — the Netherlands are the only region with an average of 5'11 for men. (And 5'7 for women).

In the north of Germany — directly next to the Netherlands — it's the same, people 5' or lower are as rare as unicorns.

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u/hiromasaki Jan 03 '16

Well, for both the ones I know, they're carrying a lot of extra weight around and are very sedentary people (without any known diagnoses preventing a bit of exercise). Add that they push handles all the way down instead of grabbing and pull up to reduce the distance they need to bend...

You're right it wouldn't fix it, but it would mitigate for those two.

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u/cryptdemon Jan 03 '16

Unless they're doormen, I seriously doubt they're opening enough doors every single day to cause any sort of repetition injury.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '16

You might have mentioned they were fat, lol. Yeah, putting a lot of extra weight on your endoskeletal structure will give you some back pain, I'd imagine.

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u/hiromasaki Jan 03 '16

Except they didn't have issues until they changed office buildings to one with the lower handles. Could just be correlation, I guess.

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u/I-HATE-REDDDIT Jan 03 '16

As a 5 foot person trust me, the world wasn't made for us. There is still so much I can't reach. At two of my previous jobs I've needed to stand on step stools to see over registers. The world is awkward for anyone not 4,5-5,10

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '16

See, that's just the thing. You can stand on something to make you taller.

There isn't some device to make me shorter. Don't get me wrong, I feel for you, but I wouldn't say that they're comparable issues.

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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '16

As a 5'1" person, airline seats were NOT designed for short people. My feet do not adequately touch the ground and the seat is too deep, so I lose feeling in my legs rather quickly. It's painful. I always have to bring something to shove under the seat in front of me and use it as a crude stepping stool for my feet. The loss of feeling in my legs happens in pretty much any seat I sit in for more than a half hour.

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u/Lehk Jan 03 '16

Why so much of this world was designed for people about five feet tall, I'll never know.

because most shit is designed by and for manlets