Visual disability
There are approximately 1.3 billion people living with some form of vision impairment in the world.
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How Can a Smart City Make Life Easier for People with Disabilities?
The advent of smart cities is a fantastic opportunity to build a more inclusive society, as long as everyone’s specific needs are taken into account.
How Do the Blind Safely Cross the Road?
Locating crosswalks and understanding the surroundings—the blind and visually impaired face many more challenges than just avoiding cars.
The Smartphone: a Revolution for the Blind and Visually Impaired!
Not many of us can get by without our trusty smartphones. So, what is the situation like for blind people? It gets worse as they push the limits of their independence!
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What You Need to Do to Ensure Accessibility for Deaf People at Public Venues
What You Need to Do to Ensure Accessibility for Deaf People at Public VenuesIf your venue welcomes and receives people then accessibility for deaf people isn’t something to take lightly! How can your venue be accessible to the hearing impaired? What do you need to...
How Is Airport Accessibility Progressing for People with Disabilities?
How Is Airport Accessibility Progressing for People with Disabilities? Checking-in, dropping off luggage, going through the security checkpoint, boarding…, the course of a traveler can often lead to stress and worry. A largely amplified phenomenon for travelers...
How Can Accessible Pedestrian Signals Become Responsive to COVID-19?
How Can Accessible Pedestrian Signals Become Responsive to COVID-19? In a world where COVID is still part of our lives, great cities face new challenges: maintaining services to citizens while limiting the spread of the pandemic. Among the population, blind and...
Disabled People in the World: Facts and Figures
Disabled People in the World: Facts and Figures There are currently more than 1 billion disabled people in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) a disabled person is anyone who has “a problem in body function or structure, an activity...
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