[ebooktalk] Re: Off topic, Accessible? signs.
- From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:57:44 +0100
Not braille but visual when the Scottish parliament building was being
decorated the question of signs for the toilets came up and one of the
committee insisted that the signs for the gents should show a man wearing a
kilt. Of course, when the signs duly arrived from Koria the signs for the
male and female toilets were indistinguishable.
Steve
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Off topic, Accessible? signs.
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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