[Accessibility_sig] Making A Statement with Sculpture: AccessDenied.

[Moore, Michael]

James,

The second image suggests that the spacing between the auto barricades
is too narrow for a wheel chair to pass.  Additionally, cobblestone
walkways, such as the one in the photo can be difficult to travel over
with wheel chairs.

Mike 

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Making A Statement with Sculpture: Access Denied.
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Funny enough, there are no alt descriptions on the images.

The first photo depicts a British street scene with a telephone booth in
the foreground. A life-sized yellow sculpture of the standard
handicapped wheelchair icon, about eight inches wide, is partially in
the phone booth with the phone to its ear. The sculpture makes it
obvious that a real wheelchair user would not be able to fit in the
booth. Additional information: The photographer and a friend are
slightly visible in the reflection off the glass of the phone booth, and
a pedestrian across the street appears to have a cane, possibly a white
one.

The second photo depicts the same wheelchair icon sculpture in a
cobblestone courtyard or plaza, possibly on a university campus. A male
passer-by in his mid-twenties contemplates the sculpture, which is lying
on its side, locked in place by a large car barricade which is
protruding upwards through the wheel of the wheelchair. The message of
this sculpture's placement is less obvious.

Cheers.
James

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