[ID: A TikTok from MollyBurkeOfficial showing a woman with a cane for the visually impaired in front of a sign labelled "Female Ambulant Toilet" with braille and a braille-labelled diagram below.
She goes on to describe her problems using public bathrooms as a blind person and how the sign is incredibly useful, gesturing at relevant parts of it.
Audio transcript: "I'm at the Guide Dog Centre here in Australia. This is a legend, a tactile and braille map of the bathroom right outside the door.
Do you want to know what the hardest part of my day is as a blind person? Because it's probably not what you expect. It's not the fact that I can't drive, though it's not ideal. It is the fact that public bathrooms are all designed differently.
Do you know how stressful it is when I have to pee in public on my own? My boyfriend leaves me at the door of the women's room and I have to walk into the great unknown. Is there going to be a line? Where in line am I I'm supposed to stand when I find the toilet?
Well, first off, when I'm with my guide dog, I need the accessible stall, so I have to feel my way to the big stall. Then I get there, hopefully it's open. If not, I stand, I wait. Again, I have to find where is the toilet paper? Where is the toilet? I have to hope to God it's clean because I can't see it. Then I have to find the flusher.
Is it a pull? Is it automatic? Who knows? Then I have to find my way to the sinks. Where is the soap? Where is the dryer? Hello, we have found the solution. Up here, it says female and ambulatory toilet map.
Then it tells me A, T means it's the ambulatory, which means it's the larger accessible stall. T means toilet. Down here we have D means dryer. Then I go here and I know that this stall would be the one that my guide dog and I would use because this is the A, T, the bigger stall.
Next to it, the two ones to the right are both normal-sized toilets. Down here, we have D, so this means it's the dryer for drying my hands. We have B, S, and B, which means I now know if I'm at the sinks, the soap is in between the two basins. I want this.
I know, look, here, I walk in the door, so I immediately orient myself. Toilets are right in front. I would go far left. Right next to the door is going to be my sinks. This is a game changer. This is a game changer.
I want these everywhere. This is my plea. My next campaign, How to make toileting more accessible." End ID]