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From: Ted.Young@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Ted Young)
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Subject: subway safety
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Date: 26 Oct 90 03:25:12 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

What I really want to know though is, do those of you who worry
about our image being negatively affected by tactile tiles likewise
think that the braille they are putting in many of the elevators in
our fine city should be avoided for similar reasons?

Willie:  the problem is that the edge of a platform is easily
distinguishable with a cane, the difference between an open car
door and the space between cars is easily distinguishable by a
cane, which button to push on an elevator and what floor the
elevator has reached are not so easily distinguishable as the
button set ups vary.  Aside from asking for what is not needed, to
ask for an unneeded travel aid is indeed to suggest less
capabilities than we have, to ask for Braille markings at least
shows the public we can read, and, by the way, not many of the
public believe that.  Ted

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