Disabilities around the World
Clichés, facts and figures about people with special needs. In this category find out about disabilities around the world.
What is the difference between intellectual disability, mental disability and psychiatric disability? How many blind people and low-vision people are in your country? Go beyond clichés about deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
Get to know more about disabled people. You will be surprised!
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Visual disability
8 Key Points to Ensure Accessibility for Customers with Vision Disabilities at Public Venues
Are you sure your venue is fully accessible to blind and visually impaired customers? Check out 8 key points you need to pay attention to!
physical disability
Invisible Disabilities: 80% of Disabled People Are Concerned!
What are the types of invisible disabilities? And how can you help people who have some be more comfortable at your venue?
hearing disability
What You Need to Do to Ensure Accessibility for Deaf People at Public Venues
Discover all the solutions to make the deaf community feel welcomed at your venue!
mental disability
What You Need to Do to Ensure Accessibility for Customers with Intellectual Disabilities at Your Venue
Understanding what intellectual disabilities and what challenges people who have them face can help you provide them with the best possible experience.
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Accessibility for All: Why Removing Barriers Benefits Us All
Accessibility for All: Why Removing Barriers Benefits Us AllFor sure, accessibility for all isn’t something to take lightly. And neither is it something that can easily be discarded considering that over 1 billion people in the world have disabilities. We, as world’s...
How Can Multimodal Transit Centers Be Accessible for People with Disabilities?
How Can Multimodal Transit Centers Be Accessible for People with Disabilities?Multimodal transit centers turn out to be major nodes of transportation in large cities that aim at improving transport efficiency. They can easily connect together different means of...
How to Guarantee a Seamless Mobility Chain to Users with Disabilities?
How to Guarantee a Seamless Mobility Chain to Users with Disabilities?Whether you are a subway network operator, an architect, a roadway manager or a museum director, guaranteeing a seamless mobility chain to your users isn’t the conundrum you’d expect. Having an...
What You Need to Do to Ensure Accessibility for Deaf People at Public Venues
What You Need to Do to Ensure Accessibility for Deaf People at Public VenuesIf your venue welcomes and receives people then accessibility for deaf people isn’t something to take lightly! How can your venue be accessible to the hearing impaired? What do you need to...
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