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> We have a student coming in October who will need a lowered lab bench as
> she is a wheelchair user. Have any other institutions made similar
> arrangements, and if so, was it successful, and who made the lowered
> bench?
Dear Ms. Dixon
In our labs, with multiple copies of the same equipment, we have one
set which is on a normal desk, accessable by most wheelchair users. For
another lab with many different experiments, we get a technician to
rotate the kit onto a low desk, at a cost of five minutes every two
weeks.
Some years ago, a technician here designed, costed and started building
a most beautiful ramp system with rails, turntable and adjustable
locking equipment (for different wheelchairs). It was over 2000 pounds,
not including his time. After all that work, he really hated the
application of the KISS rule to the problem.
Dave Lyons
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David M. Lyons, Department of Computer Science,
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester,
Essex, UK, C04 3SQ
Tel - (44 1026) 872674
Fax - (44 1206) 872788
WWW - http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/lyons.htm
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