{"id":8510,"date":"2016-02-23T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T03:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/?p=8510"},"modified":"2016-03-29T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T05:26:20","slug":"this-is-universal-design-visited-ed-roberts-campus-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/2016\/02\/23\/this-is-universal-design-visited-ed-roberts-campus-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Universal Design! Visited Ed Roberts Campus ~Part 2~"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Susan showed me around Ed Roberts Campus!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Continue on Ed Roberts Campus report. Part 1 is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"Ed<\/p>\n

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On the 1st floor, there is a water fountain. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is not just a water fountain but also used as a landmark here because people with visual impaired can be good at distinguishing the sound.<\/p>\n

People can give directions by referring a location\u2019s relative proximity to the water fountain like<\/p>\n

\u201cOrganization A is on the right side of the water fountain. The cafe is on the left side of the water fountain.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is also a good meet up spot for people with visual impaired.<\/p>\n

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\"Mizuki<\/p>\n

Many people have experienced to unlock a door by swiping a security card onto a sensor. <\/span><\/p>\n

It looks very simple and easy for most people, but actually quite difficult for some people. <\/span><\/p>\n

To unlock a door, a person usually needs to get close enough and hold a security card next to the reader, which is a barrier for persons who have limited use of their arms. <\/span><\/p>\n

At Ed Roberts Campus, they implemented a big size card reader panel that is able to read a security card from a longer distance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also the lower white wall is special. <\/span><\/p>\n

Often times, wheelchair users accidentally hit walls with their wheelchairs and that leaves black marks on the walls that are not easy to\u00a0 <\/span>clean, or even damages the walls. <\/span><\/p>\n

The white wall here adopts a special material called Trespa, which makes cleaning those black marks much easier and prevents damage. <\/span><\/p>\n

It costs more than regular wall materials, but it is worth using it because it can be used for long time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Ed<\/p>\n

There are wheelchair accessible restrooms in regular male’s and female\u2019s room as well as in family rooms. <\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, a restroom which can be used by anyone, we call it multiple purpose restroom in Japan, is not many in the US. <\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, most of the male’s and female\u2019s restrooms have wheelchair accessible rooms. <\/span><\/p>\n

However if persons need help from someone who is an opposite sex, for example from a husband or wife, they cannot use regular restrooms. <\/span><\/p>\n

I feel more places should have wheelchair accessible restrooms both in regular room and family room so that more people in different situation can use.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Ed<\/p>\n

There is a balcony on the 2nd floor. <\/span><\/p>\n

Those vegetable planters are achievable for wheelchair users.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are beautiful paintings on the 2nd floor. <\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span><\/a>he Center for Accessibility Technology<\/a>, an organization which is located in Ed Roberts Campus, raised money to get materials for paintings and asked people with disabilities to paint to deliver their thoughts.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is a lot of passion written down in words on those paintings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is my favorite one:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cOne day many people will learn to sign, and we all be seeing voices. <\/span><\/p>\n

When all the world speaks with its hands!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\"Ed<\/p>\n

Ed Roberts Campus has 7 partner organizations, whose services range from independent living support, disability rights and advocacy, research,\u00a0<\/span>fitness and recreation,\u00a0<\/span>technology support, and support for parents of children with disabilities. <\/span><\/p>\n

One heartfelt design of each entrance of the organizations is that they all have the same color and font type in order to help cognitive disabled people avoid confusion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"ADA<\/p>\n

On the day I visited Ed Roberts Campus, due to my taxi reservation time, I arrived there at 7:30 in the morning which was 2 hours prior to the appointment. <\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, \u201cADA\u2019S CAFE\u201d connected to Ed Roberts Campus open from 7am ( Ed Roberts Campus open 8am). <\/span><\/p>\n

I saw some business men who came in and got a coffee on the way to the office too, and felt Ed Roberts Campus is just not for people with disabilities but other people in the community can stop by. <\/span><\/p>\n

Ed Roberts Campus is\u00a0 <\/span>a part of many people\u2019s lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Making a place where \u201ceveryone can access\u201d is not easy. <\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, Ed Roberts Campus itself is still thinking how to make it more accessible. <\/span><\/p>\n

Since I am a wheelchair user, I tend to see things as a view of wheelchair user. <\/span><\/p>\n

But thanks to Susan\u2019s tour and explanation, I have noticed how much effort that Ed Roberts Campus has put on accessibility. <\/span><\/p>\n

I also realized that it is very difficult for persons without disabilities and even for person with disabilities to create an universal design that meets everyone\u2019s requirement with different types disabilities.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

To reduce barriers that people with disabilities are facing, it is very important to hear people with different disabilities\u2019 actual experience and opinions. <\/span><\/p>\n

I really hope to see more and more universally designed in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuously on Ed Roberts Campus report. More of Ed Roberts Campus’s carefully designed universal design components kept impressing me. After observing this universal designed architecture, I realized something as a wheelchair user. Please check it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,135],"tags":[101,121,122,124,98],"class_list":["post-8510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accessibility","category-research","tag-accessibility-review","tag-diversity","tag-inclusion","tag-universal-design","tag-wheelchair"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8510\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}