Community Accessibility Project

For Orange County

Writen By John Graber

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Table of Contents

• Acknowledgement
• Introduction: Meaning of CAP
• Outing Survey Results
  • Restaurant
  • Recreation
• Conclusion
• List of locations

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Accessible & Non Accessible

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all the people who contributed to the community accessibility

project.

Special Thanks to Cathy Demello, Executive Director at Integrity House. Thank you

for your continued support.

All members and staff of Integrity House. Thank you for your active participation

in making this projects a success.

Regional Center of O.C. for publishing this book.

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Community Accessibility Project

I was looking for a project that I could do for my family, my friends, others and

myself with disabilities. I went to the city of Huntington Beach and visited City Hall. I asked

them if they had any social activates especially for people with disabilities that is accessible

and for ambulatory and non-ambulatory people. They could not provide me any resources

so instead of researching just one city I decided to research the entire county of Orange. I

talked to the DDS and CAC and they liked the idea so I come back to Integrity House and

talked to my staff and members about how we could start a project. Everyone thought the

idea was great. I asked my fellow members who would like to volunteer to be a part of the

CAP project. We stared having weekly meetings at 1:30p.m. Every Wednesday except for

the last Wednesday of the month, which was the actual day of the outing. Each meeting we

decided on which outing we would evaluate for that month. There is a maximum of 4

members that could go on each outing, so we would try to alternate members so that

everyone had a chance. We developed a survey plan, which would rate and evaluate each

place according to whether they were accessible or not. We tallied up the evaluations and

came up with an overall score and the results are presented in this booklet.

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Outing Survey Results

Part 1

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Restaurants

Hooters

Comments: We waited a long time for the food. Service was good but kind of

late. There was a good amount of handicapped car spaces.

Overall Score: 3.1

Norms

Comments: The restaurant was not up to par. Getting into the facility was very

difficult of wheelchairs and we were seated in the very back of the restaurant. There was

not enough room, one of the members had to be transferred to a booth in order to eat. None

of the tables were fully accessible. Average service was given. They did cut the food as

asked, but only cut up part of the meal.

Overall Score: 2

IHOP

Comments: Need more handicap parking spot.

Overall Score: 1.4

Mimi’s Café

Comments: Need more handicap parking spots (very limited). The bathroom

was accessible but cluttered.

Overall Score: 4

In & out Burger

Comments: Good service overall. Took too much time wiping down tables,

good service, need motion sensors for the restrooms but in all, the service was

adequate. Member had difficulties getting to and from distant parking lots.

Overall Score: 4.3

Red Robbin

Comments: The Restrooms would be more accessible if they had electric

doors with a push to open doors. They could design the west front with a little more

space and less walls, next to the restrooms.

Overall Score 4.5

Johns

Comments: Clean restroom and good customer service. The place was

somewhat wheelchair accessible.

Overall Score 4.6

Old Spaghetti Factory

Comments: Eddie – The waiter was awesome. We had a couple dirty glasses,

but they did change them.

Overall Score 4.7

Mario ‘s Restaurant

Comments: Waiter needed to come to our table more often to check on us.

There was a big trashcan in the handicap stall, it was inaccessible. The soap

dispenser wasn’t within reach. It needed to be placed lower and to the left. The

restrooms were wheelchair accessible.

Overall Score 4.5

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Recreation

AMF Bowling

Comments: Member liked everything about it and the staff

was friendly. Restrooms were accessible, but not sanitized at

all. They have a ramp to go onto bowling lanes.

Overall Score 4