Transportation
Have you ever wondered how disabled people get their way around in public transports? We have decrypted for you all the existing solutions.
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How to Help People with Disabilities Get a Better Experience on the Subway?
Twelve American cities are operated with a subway. These railway transit systems, elevated and underground, represent a vast labyrinth that enables thousands of people to move around every day without using the often congested streets that we all know too well.
Adopting a Design Approach to Put People at the Heart of New Mobility Services – Interview with Marie-Charlotte Moret
Service designers analyze actual practices to bring out new solutions that improve everyday life, with services that are useful, usable and “desirable”. This is why this approach is central to create new mobilities in the urban environment of the 21st century. Explanation!
Public Transport Information Accessibility: 5 Solutions for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
Public Transport Information Accessibility: 5 Solutions for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users "Due to an accident on the track, the metro will be...
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5 Must-Have Apps for People with Intellectual Disabilities
5 Must-Have Apps for People with Intellectual DisabilitiesPeople with intellectual disabilities such as Down syndrome or fragile X syndrome have an intellectual development that’s inferior to the population average and learning difficulties. This means they have...
How Innovation Promises to Revolutionize Accessibility in the New York City Subway
How Innovation Promises to Revolutionize Accessibility in the New York City Subway With more than 1.5 billion passengers per year, the New York City subway is one of the most used rapid transit systems in the Western world. And it’s also one of the oldest. It...
How Accessible Are the Audible Pedestrian Pushbuttons of Your Crossings?
How Accessible Are the Audible Pedestrian Pushbuttons of Your Crossings?Actuating audible pedestrian pushbuttons is the first step to crossing the street safely. They provide blind and visually impaired users audible information about the WALK and DON’T WALK signals....
Should We Say “Hybridization” or “Inclusion” Regarding People with Disabilities? | Interview of Gabrielle Halpern, Doctor of Philosophy
Should We Say “Hybridization” or “Inclusion” Regarding People with Disabilities? | Interview of Gabrielle Halpern, Doctor of PhilosophyAs accessibility experts, we often talk about inclusion to explain that our society should be built to suit the needs of everybody,...
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