When this process began Star Metro ran it through the alphabet soup of A B C and N F B along with the Lighthouse of the Big Bend. Star Metro had several examples of what the signage would eventually look like for anyone interested to examine.
The signage has to be parallel with the pole. If the signage was at right angle people would walk into the braille sign causing damage to the sign or themselves.
News 27 this evening reported the signage will be distributed first to the transfer points then then throughout the rest of the system.
-----Original Message----- From: Chip Orange
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:39 AM To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tabi] Re: braille signage at all star stops It's good there will be braille signs. Unfortunately, someone made the decision to rotate the entire line of characters 90 degrees so that it runs "down" the pole, making it very difficult to read (especially so for anyone with the slightest of mobility impairments, as you must rotate your wrist/arm 90 degrees). In my opinion it would have been much better to rotate each letter 90 degrees (as is commonly done with printed signs) and stack the letters one beneath the other. If you want to see the difficulty I'm speaking of, just take a braille book or page and hold it up to a wall 4 or 5 feet off of the ground, and rotated 90 degrees so that you read the braille from top to bottom. Then try and read a line with one hand and you'll see the unnatural position/motion required to read it. Chip -----Original Message----- From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Easy Talk Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:25 AM To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tabi] Re: braille signage at all star stops There is an article about the signs on wctv, there web site is wctv.tv Robert----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Evans" <austin.evans60@xxxxxxxxx>
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