Wal-Mart sued by disabled over payment machine access

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4. i don't want to be chide you

And I don't want to be chided as a word police.

But words have meaning and power and I'm going to ask you to consider something.

Something to think about is "people first language." That means simply that you put the person first. Instead of labeling someone as "handicap" and referring to them as a label, talk about them like they are a person first. You might say "people with a disability" or "people with different ability" or even "a person with limited mobility."

In that way, you don't reduce a person to just being the label - "a handicap." The person comes first, and they just happen to be a person with that difference in ability.

It works with a lot of things. Just something to consider.

Having said that, I do not know if the ADA covers this situation or not, but I am not a lawyer.