How to Help People with Disabilities Get a Better Experience on the Subway?
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Accessibility Toolkit: When Complete Streets Help People with Disabilities
After World War II, cars’ supremacy started to shape Northern American cities. It was not until the early 1970s that some states began to design the urban space with all users in mind to make transportation network safer and more efficient. This is how Complete Streets-like policy was born. So what are Complete Streets policies and above all why do they matter for disabled people?
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[INFOGRAPHIC] How the City of Ottawa Can Improve its Accessibility with APS?
In a city where around 50,000 blind people have difficulties getting around, Ottawa accessibility design standards have been developed to encourage diversity, remove physical barriers and provide solutions embracing the principles of “universal design”.
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[INFOGRAPHIC] Smartphone Use and Activities by People with Disabilities
It is often mistakenly believed that people with disabilities cannot use a smartphone. However, whether they have sensory, cognitive or motor disabilities, they do have access to mobile technology, but with some variation for specific activities. Take a look for yourself!
How Accessible Pedestrian Signals Can Help Chicago Be the ‘Most Inclusive City in the Nation’?
Chicago is the third most populated city in the United States ranking after New York and Los Angeles. To facilitate the movement of vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists and thus prevent the city from plunging into chaos, 3,000 signalized traffic intersections have been set up throughout the city.
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How to Help People with Disabilities Get a Better Experience on the Subway?
Twelve American cities are operated with a subway. These railway transit systems, elevated and underground, represent a vast labyrinth that enables thousands of people to move around every day without using the often congested streets that we all know too well. If the subway is the favorite transportation solution for the major part of the population, it can prove to be a real puzzle for disabled people. How can you feel safe in a congested and confined environment? How can you find your way around when you have to deal with complex stations? How can you reach the platforms in an environment where elevators are rare or even nonexistent?
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Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: Accessibility Equipment Update
On the occasion of the Summer Olympic Games in 2020, the Japanese capital is playing host to nearly 500,000 tourists and 4,400 Paralympic athletes from August 24 to September 9, 2020. The city has already experienced the excitement related to such an event in 1964 but this time the challenge for Tokyo will be to welcome thousands of people who will flock from all over the world to attend this unique event.
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Technological breakthroughs can do miracles. For the 466 million people worldwide having disabling hearing loss (WHO), smartphones have become an essential tool to facilitate social interaction due to speech perception.
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Accessibility Toolkit: When Complete Streets Help People with Disabilities
After World War II, cars’ supremacy started to shape Northern American cities. It was not until the early 1970s that some states began to design the urban space with all users in mind to make transportation network safer and more efficient. This is how Complete Streets-like policy was born. So what are Complete Streets policies and above all why do they matter for disabled people?
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Accessibility Toolkit: When Complete Streets Help People with Disabilities
After World War II, cars’ supremacy started to shape Northern American cities. It was not until the early 1970s that some states began to design the urban space with all users in mind to make transportation network safer and more efficient. This is how Complete Streets-like policy was born. So what are Complete Streets policies and above all why do they matter for disabled people?
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How to Help People with Disabilities Get a Better Experience on the Subway?
Twelve American cities are operated with a subway. These railway transit systems, elevated and underground, represent a vast labyrinth that enables thousands of people to move around every day without using the often congested streets that we all know too well. If the subway is the favorite transportation solution for the major part of the population, it can prove to be a real puzzle for disabled people. How can you feel safe in a congested and confined environment? How can you find your way around when you have to deal with complex stations? How can you reach the platforms in an environment where elevators are rare or even nonexistent?
![[INFOGRAPHIC] How the City of Ottawa Can Improve its Accessibility with APS?](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img/https://www.inclusivecitymaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ottawa_accessiblity_policy_blind-min-2-440x264.jpg)
![[INFOGRAPHIC] Smartphone Use and Activities by People with Disabilities](https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img/https://www.inclusivecitymaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/smartphone_use_blind_people-min-440x264.jpg)
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