[tabi] Re: braille signage at all star stops
- From: "Chip and Allie Orange" <acorange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:06:38 -0400
Hi Adam,
Fine ... so this is a personal preference item then, and I have pain when
twisting my wrists (because they partially come out of joint frequently), so
I prefer just to put my hand out in front of me and pull it straight down to
read braille.
Chip
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From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Adam Gaffney
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 3:35 PM
To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tabi] Re: braille signage at all star stops
Hi, I've never seen Braille oriented at all vertically and if I saw this
and didn't know ahead of time I might not even recognize it as Braille.
Just my thoughts on this. Besides, it's not like we are reading a novel
like that.
--
"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be
made to understand it."
- Confucius ca. 480 B.C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip and Allie Orange" <acorange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 12:14 PM
Subject: [tabi] Re: braille signage at all star stops
> Hi Lynn,
>
> The sinage being parallel to the pole is obvious, and was not what I
> objected to.
>
> A sighted person however would have rotated each individual letter 90
> degrees, and I feel the braille should have been done the same, so that a
> person would need need to rotate their entire hand/arm/wrist in order to
> read each letter.
>
> Chip
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of Lynn Evans
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:08 PM
> To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tabi] Re: braille signage at all star stops
>
> 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>
> To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 11:22 PM
> Subject: [tabi] braille signage at all star stops
>
>
>> braille sign signage star metro has started placing braille signage
> at
>> all bus stopss starting today.
>>
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