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I'd say it was almost equally dangerous for person with that high level of visual impairment to use any stairs where each stair is a single uniform color. In y
by ineedasername 4y ago
I'd say it was almost equally dangerous for person with that high level of visual impairment to use any stairs where each stair is a single uniform color.
In your example it might be difficult for such a person to identify the location of the stairs, but still very dangerous once they found them and began climbing. In my example-- say the stairs were a uniform red-- once the stairs were found it would still be equally dangerous to climb them, little better than going up blindfolded as you couldn't distinguish one stair from another.
A person with that impairment should probably want some sort of occupational therapy to use a guide cane or other method to safely perform tasks like that without relying clear contrasting colors.
- bradknowles 4y agoThink Parkinson's. Visual clues as to what is or is not immediately in front of you can seriously impact your ability to make the nerves in your leg muscles work correctly. Now, that said, maybe no one with Parkinson's should be going up any stairs of any sort. But I think glass stairs, even if frosted, would definitely be an ADA problem.