@DJDarren Thank you! I'm not Blind, but I am in a wheelchair and have a few other access needs. Places I have to ask every time to use whatever accommodation they might have, while others can self-serve and move freely, I just stop going when I can. The quantity of unpaid labor with Disability is huge. Existing in the same spaces as everyone else should not be a fulltime job. Thank you for not piling on. <3
@VaylLarkinPoet My partner uses a chair when we go shopping. It's genuinely astonishing to me how many obstacles they still face in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-six.
Hell, we visited a shop that opened about a month ago, where we discovered that the concrete ramp to get in was quite short and steep, causing one hell of a bump. And the aisles we literally only just wide enough to get the chair down.
The Range chain of stores here in the UK is pretty much a no-go at christmas because they pack the aisles so much with extra points of sale and boxes of shit that it's a hugely stressful experience trying to navigate.
And this is with actual laws in place!
So yeah, you have my empathy and solidarity.