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How Can Accessible Pedestrian Signals Become Responsive to COVID-19?
In a post-COVID world, great cities face new challenges: maintaining services to citizens while limiting
the spread of the pandemic. Among the population, blind and visually impaired persons are
particularly vulnerable.
Smombies: the New Safety Challenge for Cities in the 21st Century
Never heard of smombies before? It will soon be a word employed in your everyday life. Smombie is actually the blend of the words smartphone and zombie and is used to describe a person who’s watching their phone while walking in the streets.
How Can Shopping Malls Be Accessible to People with Disabilities?
Accessibility for all in shopping malls can be a real challenge. Some malls have found innovative solutions to make their places accessible for people with disabilities.
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.
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Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know on Braille Mysterious Writing
On elevators, medicine boxes, descriptions in museums or door signs…, you’ve probably noticed those small raised dots. Braille, the writing and reading tactile system with raised dots used by visually impaired people, exists since 1829.
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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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Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know on Braille Mysterious Writing
On elevators, medicine boxes, descriptions in museums or door signs…, you’ve probably noticed those small raised dots. Braille, the writing and reading tactile system with raised dots used by visually impaired people, exists since 1829.
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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 Can Accessible Pedestrian Signals Become Responsive to COVID-19?
In a post-COVID world, great cities face new challenges: maintaining services to citizens while limiting
the spread of the pandemic. Among the population, blind and visually impaired persons are
particularly vulnerable.
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How Can Shopping Malls Be Accessible to People with Disabilities?
Accessibility for all in shopping malls can be a real challenge. Some malls have found innovative solutions to make their places accessible for people with disabilities.
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