united-states england-and-wales hypothetical equal-protection equality-act-2010
Is it legal for a disability accomodation to inconvenience able-bodied people?
<p>About 10 people and I cycle to work and have to swipe a card on a post to get through the gates.</p>
<p>Now, someone in a wheelchair has started working here too, and because the post's position was impossible for her to reach, the landlord has moved the sensor to make it easier for her to swipe her card, which is fixed to the side of her chair. It's now really awkward for us cyclists to reach, because it's down at nearly floor level.</p>
<p><em>Just to be clear, no one has a problem with this at all, and all us cyclists are happy to oblige.  The landlord is also going to install a second sensor high up for us.</em></p>
<p>I just want to know if hypothetically, if making life easier for a disabled person makes a non-disabled person's life harder, is it legal?</p>

<h2>Yes</h2>
<p>Being disabled is a protected class under the Equality Act. being a cyclist isn’t. The landlord <em>has</em> to make reasonable accomodations for her, he doesn’t have to for you.</p>
