Purpose: While handicapped accessibility is relatively good at the University of Memphis, the campus is in need of renovations due to the increased number of handicapped students attending college each semester. Perfectly normal non-handicapped students who use “grandma’s” blue hangtag or even neglect the blue tag altogether are taking what few handicapped parking spaces there are. The number and size of the elevators in the old buildings are in serious need of updating. Again, perfectly normal non-handicapped students taking up the already cramped, too few elevators instead of walking up one or two flights of stairs forcing those who depend on the elevators to be late for classes. That brings us to the sometimes-absent electric opening doors on all the old buildings. Where there are double doors, only one side of the door opens making it near impossible for a wheelchair to fit through.
Audience: The target audience of this paper would be the people in charge of keeping the campus up-to-date and accessible to all University of Memphis students. They will be the ones paying for and supervising
Criteria: There are three questions we need to address with each of these issues. How much will this cost? How feasible or possible would this be? And finally, how quickly could this be done? The cost is a given, since it affects both audiences, the higher the cost of the renovations the higher the prices go for students. The second question on feasibility is important because the solution has to be able to be done in order for it to work and it has to be able to be done with as little disruption as possible. Which leads to the final question of timeliness. This is also important due to the fact of keeping disruptions down to a minimum.
The final issue is the electronic doors. The easiest solution to this problem would be to set it so both doors open when the handicapped button is pushed making the doorway wide enough for wheelchairs without assistance from nearby students. It would also help that all doors on all buildings be mechanized, instead of some buildings equipped and some not. To take this a step further, for those unable to use anything below their shoulders, make it so all doors open
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