You're tremendously relieved. With a sinking feeling, you realize your apartment has steps, but you don't remember how many, or have a feel for how wide your doors are. A couple of your friends check out your apartment and report there are eight steps and a wheelchair won't fit through the bathroom door. Even to you, a fairly adventurous person, it doesn't sound like a safe place to recuperate. The almost endless tangle of logistics during the next months exhausts you more than your injury does.
Inaccessible houses impede the lives of people who use wheelchairs.
Being a visitor in an inaccessible house means the dangerous possibility of being dropped down the steps, the worry and embarrassment of being kept from using the bathroom, the social awkwardness of being carried, the frustration of not being able to knock on the door to see if someone's home. And if they have low incomes, as many disabled people do, inaccessibility often forces them to live in a house where they may literally have to crawl every time they use the bathroom, or stay inside all day because of the steps. These are serious matters.