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Category: Reading the Signs

Reading the Signs columns are written by members of the Nebraska Conference Disabilities Ministries Board. They are offered for use in Conference and Local Church newsletters as an accessibility tool. Permission to print given by Nebraska Conference newsletter editor of The Nebraska Record.

Structural Accessibility – When a Door Becomes a Wall

You open your church’s front door and enter without a thought. If advancing years or a temporary, progressive, or permanent disability has diminished your strength, you may still open the door enough for a foot or shoulder wedge. Then, thrusting your body against the door, you are in. That is, if you could grasp the handle while managing a walker or cane. Or, you pound on the door and wait because you are a child or your wheelchair reach does not afford the leverage necessary to budge the door.

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