Saturday, July 19, 2008

Major progress in the push for an accessible campus! As of Wednesday:
- Access-related retrofit projects will have timelines attached, whether they're in response to a student request or just part of general improvements. They'll be somewhat flexible, but will provide a good way to track whether things are being done in a reasonable amount of time, or postponed and forgotten.

- Contractors will be held responsible for compliance. This is most relevant with respect to door parameters (size and weight and so forth). Projects will not be considered fully delivered until all doors have been checked for compliance by the contractor, and a written record will be kept of these checks.

This is *big* news. In more minor news, the two large (post-ADA) buildings that seem to have systemic compliance problems will be surveyed and brought into compliance. The general sentiment is that it's been long enough since they were completed that the vendors involved can't be billed for this, so this is being treated as a sort of cleanup, with the expectation that the second bullet point above will keep it from being necessary in the future. Wahoo!

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