| Wheelchair users can be anyone such as the elderly, | | | | soap dispensers, towel dispensers, and toilet flushers. If |
| those who are handicapped, or wounded soldiers who | | | | it is a restroom for those with disabilities there will be a |
| are confined to a wheelchair. When they have to use | | | | sign on the door stating so. Some restrooms are not |
| the toilet, first they must turn the chair around in order | | | | large enough to accommodate a wheelchair. This |
| to be close to the toilet. Then after applying the brake, | | | | means that these disabled travellers need to know |
| they are able to transfer unto the toilet seat. Getting | | | | where they can stop in order to use an ADA |
| back on the wheelchair they have to be careful and | | | | restroom. |
| then they can release the brake in order to turn | | | | In the home bathroom use can be made easier by |
| around. This whole process involves several steps and | | | | installing hand rails, automatic dispensers, and |
| can be time consuming and frustrating. Those of us | | | | sensor-operated tank style toilet flushers. The sensor |
| who do not have to use a wheelchair should try do | | | | can be attached to the wall in back of the toilet. This |
| this in order to experience what wheelchair users | | | | will eliminate having to work the handle. It is also |
| have to endure. It is not easy. | | | | hygienic because it avoids cross-contamination of |
| Not all public restrooms are ADA equipped with | | | | germs. Homelife for wheelchair users can be made |
| automatic door openers, sensor-operated faucets, | | | | much easier by implementing these simple measures. |