Mapping Accessibility_Signage

When I walked back to campus from Emory Village after having dinner, I persuaded my friend to walk up the stairs outside the Oxford Road Building instead of taking the elevator inside the building. Climbing up few steps, we accidently found a large parking garage and a signage on the wall. “Accessible route to the campus is via the Oxford Road parking deck to elevator lobby to 3rd floor.” 

Following the signage, we entered the parking garage and passed through it, just to find an accessible entrance to the elevator lobby with an automatic pushing button the wall. In the elevator, there is also a signage for people with disabilities showing where this elevator and the accessible route are leading to. These signs give people with disabilities clear senses and valuable information about the accessible route by showing them the directions and destinations they could get to. However, I think the location of the first signage in not appropriate. As it is in the midway of the stairs that we need to climb up quite a few steps in order to see the signage, a wheelchair user could not even see the signage. So it is better to put the signage on the walls at the bottom of the stairs. Or, if the signage is designed for people going out from the parking garage, I think it is better put the signage on the walls inside the garage since the elevator lobby is in the garage.