[ebooktalk] Re: Off topic, Accessible? signs.

  • From: Ian Macrae <ian.macrae1@xxxxxxx>
  • To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:19:51 +0100

There's a story told to me by the local butcher possibly apocryphal of the 
Braille signage proudly displayed by a council...Behind glass.  
On 19 Jul 2013, at 10:17, CJ & AA MAY wrote:

> Even when they do provide Braille, it is often not thougt through. I went to
> a zoo in Melbourne where each cage had a Braille label but it was at knee
> level and also, instead of being laid flat, it was against a plinth, facing
> towards you so you needed to crouch but then read it with your fingers
> pointing upwards.
> Alison
> 
> 
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> 
> Hi Trish
> 
> That is great. Once again, apologies for those who have heard this before.
> 
> My sister-in-law was involved in displaying braille signs in a new building.
> They made signs for room numbers and the canteen and so on, but no braille
> signs for the loos. When my sister-in-law challenged this she was told that
> blind people would know as they could look at the Gents and Ladies signs.
> The sign people would not give way, as far as I know, even though my
> sister-in-law explained that these were probably the most important signs
> they could display.
> 
> There weren't any braille books.
> 
> Pele
> 
> 


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