[senco-forum] disability in practice

Actually a skilled lightweight wheelchair user is more mobile (generally)  
than someone on crutches. I know quite a few people permanently required to use  
crutches who have gone over to a wheelchair -- and they get around much 
faster  and painlessly. And  -- if there are steps -- they can get out -- take  
their crutches out of the rear crutch holder and struggle up the damned things.  
I envy them this as a complete non-ambulant.

USA is good -- it is in the national constitution for every state to be  
accessible (buildings, transport and roads. So break you leg over there -- even  
Disney Land is good as they bring disabled people to the front of the line  and 
there is usually a disabled facility for accessing the ride etc.

Fun, cheap, holiday countries on the Med are not so good but getting better  
-- France is not bad. We are very variable and -- honestly --- pretty awful  
despite recent laws. Every school should be completely accessible by 
unavoidable  law -- funded nationally by central government. At present it is 
"reasonable  adjustments" -- a lawyers paradise. Brendan