Why Nowhere to Sit Is Still One of the Most Overlooked Accessibility Barriers
One of the most underestimated accessibility barriers in everyday life is also one of the most common: there is often nowhere to sit. For a lot of non-disabled people, that may sound minor at first. Standing for a while may be annoying, inconvenient, or uncomfortable, but it is often treated as normal. A line is a line. A wait is a wait. A crowded space is just part of being out in public. But for many disabled people, the absence of seating is not a small inconvenience. It can decide whether an outing is manageable at all. This is one of the reasons seating deserves much more attention in disability conversations. Public life still assumes that people can stand longer than many disabled people safely can. It assumes they can keep waiting, keep moving, keep holding themselves upright, and keep functioning normally in spaces that offer little chance to rest. That assumption affects much more than comfort. It affects pain, fatigue, dizziness, stamina, safety, and whether a disabled...
