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Handicapped accessibility

            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 the best solution. This can also be directed at students themselves since these improvements would directly affect them.
             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.
             Evaluation: There are numerous ways to take care of each of these issues.


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