D3.6 of the BCC and Premises Standards. Importantly, please read the standards as if you were applying to a design or audit and provide feedback as to whether it is practical or whether it needs more diagrams or modified text. Jane Bryce provides a great overview of the task and hurdles to date and what the draft includes.
TS 3695.3 - Wheelchairs Part 3 - Public Draft Comment Period This Technical Specification is of extreme importance to people who use wheelchair and scooters as it is seeking to establish a regulation for Blue and White label registration that will allow or deny people using wheelchairs and scooters on public transport (Blue Label) and in the public domain (White Label). The TS incorporates several test methods for turning and manoeuvring that differ from AS1428.1 and hence the DDA Premises Standards and the DDA Public Transport Standard, which in my opinion are fundamentally flawed and actually reduce the rights of people with disabilities. The proposed test methods are, in my opinion, inconsistent with the objective of the DDA and while I have been relatively vocal at committee meetings I am outnumbered by engineers and therapists telling me what’s good for me. If you have an interest in the above items either visit the Standards website or email me.
ACAA NSW Seminar – Inclusion by Design & Disability Inclusion Access Awards Finally after many months of planning the NSW Network hosted the 2nd seminar for 2017 at the University of NSW. The seminar embraced the theme of disability inclusion within the built environment as the prelude to the 2017 NSW Disability Access Inclusion Awards, which you can read more about on the following pages. The event kicked off with a brief welcome from Professor Catherine Bridge who spoke about the research work being undertaken by UNSW and the formation of the Disability Innovation Institute that will focus on harnessing all research and innovation across all UNSW faculties. If you know of access and inclusion research in your state and territory please drop us a line. As a great example of Inclusion by Design the audience obtained the opportunity to listen to the new guidelines for Changing Places sanitary facilities, thanks to Bruce Bromley, and with a little state rivalry the NSW Lift and Change equivalent presented by Frances Van Zinnen and John Evernden. This was followed by a Great presentation by Dr Phillippa Carnemolla, who has recently departed from UNSW to University of Technology Sydney to establish the Built Environment Informatics and Innovation Research Centre (BEII). Phillippa completed a continued page 20
Photo: Prof. Catherine Bridge
Photo: Francis Van Zinnen, John Everden and Bruce Bromley
July 2017
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