Limitations with wheelchairs

Problems with wheelchairs

wheelchair at Manish steel works

One problem with wheelchairs was: Wheelchairs can't go up stairs, over curbs, etc. Beginning in the 1960s, people began to see this not as a problem with wheelchairs, but as a problem with the way buildings are designed. In the US, grassroots pressure mounted on the federal government to enact standards for architectural accessibility -- wheelchair ramps, curb cuts, etc. The Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 was the first major success of this movement. The passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was a second huge victory. These early breakthroughs were followed over the next 20 years by piecemeal legislation, culminating in the 1990 passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which guaranteed that people with disabilities could not be excluded from public schools, public transportation, polling places, air travel, employment and finally any place of public accommodation.

Limitations with wheelchairs