After seeing some truly shocking ‘disabled facilities’ in 2013 we’ve decided to launch a competition to find The UK’s Worst Disabled Toilet 2014. We’ve seen some really poor attempts to make toilets accessible and we want to name a shame the worst of these Quasi Khazis. We’re looking for you to send us your examples, with the chance that, if you find the most heinous abuse of the disabled toilet label, you could win a prize and help to improve disabled facilities.
2014 is the year that we want to make the Disabled Toilet Police a key part of Blue Badge Style and everyone can be an officer in our force. We know that it really frustrates many less able people when a disabled accessible toilet is not as accessible as advertised. Too often, venues get away with saying that, for example, a basic toilet, on the ground floor, without any of the essential aids – hand rails, toilet roll and soap within reach, lowered sinks, lowered hand dryers, lowered mirrors or emergency cords – is the disabled toilet. Sure, access starts with being able to get into a room but it also covers so much more.
Too often venues are doing the bare minimum to satisfy legal requirements instead of just using their commonsense and making sure that their disabled facilities are actually usable for disabled people. We say it’s not good enough to have these inaccessible toilets labeled as disabled toilets so we’re launching a competition to find the worst culprits in the country.
To enter the competition, for a chance to win the prize (which we will be announcing soon), you need to get your photos to us at Blue Badge Style. Please Tweet a photo of your offending toilet, mentioning where you found it, to us at @BlueBadgeStyle and include the hashtag #QuasiKhazi.
Alternatively, you can post it on our Facebook page or if there’s still anyone out there without a Facebook or Twitter account (well done) you can email us at info@bluebadgestyle.com
In the last week alone we’ve come across two instances of these ludicrous loos so we’re sure there are a good deal more out there to be tracked down and publicly shamed. We’re looking for any type of problem with any disabled toilet – as long as the disabled toilet label (a label that we’re also not particularly keen on… but more of that to come in Toilets For All phase II) doesn’t make sense, we want to hear about it. To see some shocking examples of what we mean take a look at our Ludicrous Loos post or the Blog A Bog Facebook page.
If you send us the photos, as well as giving you a chance to win the prize, we can help to name and shame the perpetrators of these access violations. We did just that last week and already the venue in question has responded with a promise to make the necessary changes. We’ve already shown that simply tweeting a photo can make a difference, so even if you’ve seen somebody else post the most ludicrous of disabled facilities, make sure you still send any misdemeanors our way. We should be able to expect flawless facilities, not have to put up with quasi khazis.
We want to put an end to these quasi khaszis, ludicrous loos and disabled disabled toilets. We think that through our Toilets For All: Say No To Quasi Khazis campaign we can make sure that one by one we tell them all to bog off!
Competition closes on April Fools Day 2014.
No matter how “good” a toilet for us disabled is…
Spending 12 days in one venue in London in a cinema with 2 floors and 2 disabled toilets
Many days the doors were left open, by punters hopefully and not the venue to save getting the key…..
One afternoon, used my radar key…door locked…called a member of staff who knocked and banged on the door, a muffled voice answered and an ABLE man rushed out past us…. I trundled into a stinking toilet, cleaned it with paper towels and hand soap and used it quickly, had no choice.
Later the same young man bounded towards me and started to ramble an apology.
I said ” see you are disabled then”
And he said ” sorry about that I had an upset stomach, diarrhea ramble ramble ramble….”
I told him he had stunk the toilet, I had to clean it before use, and he wanted to know how I cleaned it, it became a scenario…after being told by me to slope off, I never forget I am a lady…;-). …. Why when disabled, a simple undertaking like going to the loo, is made awkward by muggles…..attention seeking muggles for that matter, he had to tell me why graphically…didn’t like me laughing tho’…. I’m not even angry, it’s business as usual. That 12 days felt like a child asking to go to the loo…. 🙂