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Life as a blind person is littered with questions like this. Quite often, braille signage is one of those things a sighted companion points out, usually just b
by jscholes 9y ago
Life as a blind person is littered with questions like this. Quite often, braille signage is one of those things a sighted companion points out, usually just because of the "hey, look at this!" factor. I go through life expecting that places won't have braille signs, or if they do, I'll look like an idiot trying to find them anyway so I expect not to use them. There are some places that often have similar layouts (e.g. hotels) where this situation could be taken advantage of - if hotels had braille signs for room numbers it would make it easier to navigate. But I've never stayed in a hotel that did.
There are other issues, for example an airport might have a special assistance desk for disabled travellers but you need assistance to find or reach it.
- subroutine 9y agoThank you for the response. How helpful would it be to have some kind of standard that indicates a building has braille signage? I'm thinking it could be somewhere you would always know where to inspect first, so you dont waste time checking around. I think a good place would be a door handle into the building that simply idicates right or left. Then just inside the door to the right or left there would be braille instructions like - "all rooms have braille signs 5 feet from ground. The floorplan is such. Here is where you can find room x y z."
- ardfie 9y agoI wonder if some system like a deafloop could help with these experiences. I assume that most blind or vision impaired people are already carrying smartphones; perhaps some way of providing location hints through the phone could help a visitor.