How do people with a vision impairment know where to touch? I’ve seen braille in the weirdest places, do they just expect people who cant see to go around touching every single thing out there?
I think the theory is that you put the signs at the right height and a blind person will run there hand over it while trailing the wall. Somthing like Lights for the Blind (http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/12/08/3087977.htm) can be useful (and would be useful to me, personally).
Also reminds me of a sign that used to be on the train stops around here. “please call this number for assistance if you are disabled or _vision impaired_” no braille!
When signage becomes more advanced (a la minority report… kinect?) a person who is blind might be able to have some sort of near field transponder that means a sign is read out when they get close enough to it rather than having to rely on braille. If the sign has a lot of information and braille is available it might be able to direct the users hand to the first braille touch point on the sign where all braille information is aggregated at a reasonable height in the same place. You never know. Until such time raised or indented braille would seem to be the way to go. On this sign the only chance that a blind person would have is if the braille dots were hotter than the surrounding sign… If they stumbled into the sign at all.
Andrew
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 10:09 AMAnd I’m pretty sure I might get the gag if Gizmodo *ever* bothered to put an alt/title attribute in their image tags.
I might suggest that the joke is on you.
[doa]
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 10:30 AMAre we to assume “Andrew” in blind?
Rhys
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 11:03 AMOr a well educated website designer. Either way he has a point, it’s not something I keep in mind when I browse a page.
Andrew
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 11:22 AMYes, I’m blind.
Ashley
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 11:44 AMthe picture shows a “No Entrance” Sign with a non textured braille version printed below
Joel
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 1:11 PMI’m blind, I don’t get the joke?
Jav
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 12:45 PM.:.::.:-.:.:.:.:.:::.::::…:.:.::..:..:.: (that says it all)
DansDans
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 12:55 PMReminds me of this Braille sign at my work, and the people who furnished the foyer put a chair in front of the sign
Andrew
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 1:25 PMAnd how hard would that be to put in a tag?
This, in my book, is very much the pot calling the kettle black.
Gizmodo, Lifehacker, et al, should probably get their own houses in order first.
Alex
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 1:27 PMHow do people with a vision impairment know where to touch? I’ve seen braille in the weirdest places, do they just expect people who cant see to go around touching every single thing out there?
Mr Herbert
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 1:34 PMGrandpa is angered
my76cents
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 1:36 PMAs a general question, how do blind people know a sign has braille?
Andrew
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 2:18 PMThis is a question I often ask myself.
In general I follow walls when I walk around, either using a cane when out and about, and/or my hand. This has a two-fold effect: I can walk in a reasonably streight line (http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/11/humans-can-only-walk-in-circles-and-we-dont-know-why/); and you can do useful things like count doorways.
I think the theory is that you put the signs at the right height and a blind person will run there hand over it while trailing the wall. Somthing like Lights for the Blind (http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/12/08/3087977.htm) can be useful (and would be useful to me, personally).
Jb
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 1:36 PMAlso reminds me of a sign that used to be on the train stops around here. “please call this number for assistance if you are disabled or _vision impaired_” no braille!
andronicus
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 3:30 PMI dont get what ur compalining about Andrew. The image speaks for itself.
Steve
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 9:11 PMAndrew is blind and uses software that reads the alt tags in the html to explain what images are showing.
Big Windows
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 4:28 PMWhen signage becomes more advanced (a la minority report… kinect?) a person who is blind might be able to have some sort of near field transponder that means a sign is read out when they get close enough to it rather than having to rely on braille. If the sign has a lot of information and braille is available it might be able to direct the users hand to the first braille touch point on the sign where all braille information is aggregated at a reasonable height in the same place. You never know. Until such time raised or indented braille would seem to be the way to go. On this sign the only chance that a blind person would have is if the braille dots were hotter than the surrounding sign… If they stumbled into the sign at all.
Paul
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 7:14 PMWhat if this sign if on the front of the “Blind Society” entrance?
Did anyone stop to think that MAYBE the entrance is FOR blind people .. ie, no entrance to everyone else?
Michael
Monday, May 16, 2011 at 9:53 PMCompletely irrelevant. The picture shows that the braille lettering is printed, not embossed – thus no tactile feedback for blind people
Ash
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 9:40 AMIts what you call a Braille Fail.