Submitted by Beth Wilson, RI SHHH
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Varying Accommodation Needs
nOffice
uCo-workers
uVisitors
uTelephone
nMeetings
uDiscussion
uLectures
uVirtual
nEmergencies (fire alarm)
You need different strategies for different situations.
The difficult part about making your workplace accessible is that there are so many things that need to be accommodated.  Sometimes your boss thinks you are all set if you have a TTY in your office.  But that doesn’t help at all when you go to a mandatory training session.  The TTY isn’t going to let me know that the fire alarm is ringing.  We need different strategies for different situations.