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Access for disabled people on the High Street in Britain is "shocking", according to a government audit of more than 30,000 shops and restaurants.
Thousands of venues had failed to adapt their premises, with a fifth of shops excluding wheelchair users, experts found.
There are 12 million people in Britain with disabilities, with an estimated spending power of £200bn.
Businesses are "missing a trick" and must do better, ministers said.
Accessibility experts DisabledGo visited all of the 30,000 venues in person to assess them, in the largest ever audit of its kind in the UK.
They found a fifth of shops had no wheelchair access, only 15% of restaurants and shops had hearing loops and three quarters of restaurants did not cater for those with visual impairments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30342957
Thousands of venues had failed to adapt their premises, with a fifth of shops excluding wheelchair users, experts found.
There are 12 million people in Britain with disabilities, with an estimated spending power of £200bn.
Businesses are "missing a trick" and must do better, ministers said.
Accessibility experts DisabledGo visited all of the 30,000 venues in person to assess them, in the largest ever audit of its kind in the UK.
They found a fifth of shops had no wheelchair access, only 15% of restaurants and shops had hearing loops and three quarters of restaurants did not cater for those with visual impairments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30342957