Stickers to indicate inaccessible locations

A campaigner for disabled rights has produced red stickers to indicate places inaccessible to wheelchair users, as the city prepares to hold consultations on improving accessibility for people with reduced mobility.

It’s not clear to me whether Jody Negley intends for government offices and services to be stickered, or every kind of business. In the older parts of Montreal, the majority of small businesses are in older buildings with steps up and no room for ramps. I’d guess not a single dépanneur or fruiterie in my neighbourhood is accessible, for example. One dep has a ramp but it’s probably not passable for most modern wheelchairs.

Not many businesses on that level can afford to remodel their entrances – they don’t usually own the buildings – and redo their interiors to make them transitable by wheelchair. Several fruiteries I know are so crammed with products that customers can’t even squeeze past each other on foot.

I have no solution to this.

Update: I’ve spoken to someone who knows Negley and says she’s quite serious about her campaign being about every business.