Good Practices
Are your pedestrian crossings safe for blind people? How do people with disability cross the road safely?
Our experts analyze all the good practices in terms of pedestrian road crossing in your area.
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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.
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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Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility: Examples of a Technology that Serves People with Disabilities
Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility: Examples of a Technology that Serves People with DisabilitiesMany of us think that artificial intelligence represents an abstract and futuristic notion we only see in sci-fi films with humanoid robots and holograms. However...
The Montreal Metro on the Way to Universal Accessibility
The Montreal Metro on the Way to Universal AccessibilityWith 1.36 million passengers per day, the Montreal metro is the first network in Canada and the third in North America behind New York City and Mexico City. The network, which was inaugurated on October 14, 1966...
Creating an Accessible and Barrier-Free Society through Inclusive Design: a Constant Renewal
Creating an Accessible and Barrier-Free Society through Inclusive Design: a Constant Renewal Inclusive design has a major role in enhancing accessibility. Though both concepts don’t exactly encompass the same ideas, they are undeniably linked together because of...
Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility: Examples of a Technology that Serves People with Disabilities
Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility: Examples of a Technology that Serves People with DisabilitiesMany of us think that artificial intelligence represents an abstract and futuristic notion we only see in sci-fi films with humanoid robots and holograms. However...
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