Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
If I can see the sign, then I will know I can ask for a menu for the blind?
If I can read the sign in English, then I can ask for a picture menu for people who cannot read English?
I expect this is corporate HR’s attempt to satisfy the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements.
It is worthy of ridicule.
Joe Doakes
Not to be a contrarian, but I suspect Joe’s first paragraph is correct.I would guess that most blind customers don’t walk in the McDonald’s on their own.
Among those that do? The sign is there to remind the staff, as well.
But yes, it is absolutely there to satisfy the ADA – and to placate regulators, and especially the people that wander from store to store looking for ADA lawsuits to file.
Before moving, the gym I used to work out at was located on the second floor of an office building. There was a paper sign that was printed at the foot of the stairs that said “Stairs”. Below the word was the word “Stairs” in Braille. Not embossed, mind you, just printed. I’m guessing a blind person can feel the difference in friction on piece of worn paper between where the inkjet sprayed ink and where it didn’t?