A world accessible to everyone! A claim that all people are approaching when going anywhere in the streets. A disability in a person affects everyone who surrounds this person. To support my statement, I would provide my personal experience. 

Thankfully, I do not have any disabilities that hold me back from doing any day-to-day activity but my cousin does. I do not know her medical condition by name but she has trouble talking, shakiness and walking. The combination of the last two makes her walking up stairs a hard time and does require some help. Sadly there are multiple places where there are multiple stairs and it’s the only way to reach them without making a mile run around to go through a ramp which would make it easier for her and the person going with her as it is a worry that she does not have to make huge physical necessities to reach x places. 

Stairs are not a problem that helds her back from going up or down to a certain place but as I mentioned it does require a lot more effort from her and we, as her family, are thankful for this because this is an issue that not all people are able to confront. It is a fact that there are multiple different disabilities that do not abilitate people to go up or down steps. 

The best place or scenario could be UMBC’s campus. It is located on a hill and it has full stairs, actually I counted them and there were more than 150, where the ramps are located at the administrative building entrance and the library which both go all around campus (at least from what I’ve seen. Imagining me showing my cousin the campus is stressful walking all those steps up and down (which we could go around but she is very stubborn with this aspect). The campus is a simple example but the world is full of the same or similar situations and usually the simple excuses to avoid changes are “go all around there are ramps there” or “it is too costly”. 

I hope at some point people really think for everyone’s abilities and disabilities when constructing common areas.