Jamaica Homes Guide to Accessibility Features
For buyers with specific needs or those planning for the future, accessibility features in a home are crucial. Here are the key accessibility features explained:
- Accessible Kitchen: Designed for ease of use by everyone, including individuals in wheelchairs or with limited mobility.
- Accessible Parking: Parking spaces that accommodate vehicles for the disabled, often wider and closer to entrances.
- Adjustable Countertops: Countertops that can be adjusted in height to accommodate users of all statures and abilities.
- Disabled Access: General term for modifications made to a property to make it accessible to individuals with disabilities.
- Handrails: Supportive rails in critical areas to assist in mobility and safety.
- Lateral Living: Single-level living spaces that eliminate the need for stairs, ideal for those with mobility issues.
- Level Access: Entrances without steps, making it easier for wheelchair users or those with mobility aids.
- Lift Access: Availability of a lift/elevator for easy access between floors.
- Ramped Access: Sloped surfaces that facilitate wheelchair or mobility scooter access.
- Step-free Access: Properties designed without steps to ensure ease of movement for everyone.
- Tactile Flooring: Flooring designed with textures to assist individuals with visual impairments.
- Visual Alarms: Alarm systems equipped with visual indicators for the hearing impaired.
- Wet Room/Wet Room: A waterproof room, usually a bathroom, designed to be fully accessible with open showers and sometimes includes a tub.
- Wheelchair-Friendly Bathrooms: Bathrooms designed to be used independently by individuals in wheelchairs.
- Wide Doorways: Doorways constructed wider than standard to accommodate wheelchairs and mobility aids.