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Also a non-native English speaker here, with a question about the use of the word ‘impairment’. In a situation (e.g. an exhibition,…) where tactile and audio information aren’t provided, you could say that the accessibility needs of people with a visual impairment were overlooked. Or is there a better way to say it?
An intriguing thought, in my opinion: often, measuring inclusion turns out difficult. But we can measure exclusion instead. Here, the idea is applied to transport. Do you think this works for tourism, too?
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Until we measure exclusion we won't get inclusive transport
A recent article "Just build a ramp" got me thinking about how we provide for accessibility. The world didn't evolve with ramps and other universal design accommodations in place by default, so we relied on decades of advocacy and incremental … Continue reading
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That was really well written and I love the idea of the hierarchy. While this was for transportation systems, it can easily be expanded to apply to travel etc
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Ah, yes. The same happened to me on a school trip. The theme parc would let me skip the waiting line together with my companions (no further specifications). Needless to say, half of my class wanted to be my companions and dragged me along. At one point, the ride made a looping and my glasses fell off. Luckily only to the bottom of our cart.
Reply to Examples of accessibility helping people who aren’t disabled
This week, I came across a museum that had invested in audio descriptions of their main art works. Audio description is when a voice describes what something looks like. Staff noticed that sighted people also enjoyed listening to the description of the piece they were looking at. Then covid came, and the museum turned the descriptions…
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The Louvre museum in Paris, France, used to have a room for visually impaired visitors. It had tactile elements, often copies of the objects in display elsewhere in the museum. The room was often booked by classes of sighted children, who enjoyed to actually touch, instead of only being allowed to look at everything. So, the museum…
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