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Travelers With Disabilities Get Help With New Inventions
When we think of travelers with disabilities, thoughts often end after they board the aircraft first, along with upper-class passengers, those who carry the airline's credit card, those with small children, the elderly and military members in uniform. But to blind or visually impaired travelers, simply getting to the lavatory can be difficult.
BrailleWise is changing all that, giving visually impaired people greater independence and comfort when using the lavatory on airplanes.
A product of the School of Design at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the new BrailleWise aircraft lavatory brings an organized system for reading Braille and other tactile information. Using BrailleWise, visually impaired air travelers can quickly find and use lavatories on planes.
Once in a cabin lavatory, a visually impaired traveler can feel Braille "beams" at waist level, indicating the location of the toilet bowl, the flush handle and the washbasin. While those things might seem easy to find in the small confines of an airline restroom, a visually impaired person struggles with even this simple task in total darkness, often with the aid of a crew member or friend.
With the good bearings provided by the BrailleWise system, visually impaired travelers can move around freely and independently without the need to feel around and risk touching unsanitary areas.
Travel companies try hard to accommodate those with handicaps of all sorts and each has their own specific concerns.
Those with serious mobility issues, for example, have a lot more to be concerned about than getting off and on aircraft. Enter the Tek Robotic Mobilization Device (RMD), which enables paraplegic people to sit or stand with no outside help, opening up travel that such limited mobility would have prevented in the past.
Watch this amazing video:
Once in a cabin lavatory, a visually impaired traveler can feel Braille "beams" at waist level, indicating the location of the toilet bowl, the flush handle and the washbasin. While those things might seem easy to find in the small confines of an airline restroom, a visually impaired person struggles with even this simple task in total darkness, often with the aid of a crew member or friend.With the good bearings provided by the BrailleWise system, visually impaired travelers can move around freely and independently without the need to feel around and risk touching unsanitary areas.
Travel companies try hard to accommodate those with handicaps of all sorts and each has their own specific concerns.
Those with serious mobility issues, for example, have a lot more to be concerned about than getting off and on aircraft. Enter the Tek Robotic Mobilization Device (RMD), which enables paraplegic people to sit or stand with no outside help, opening up travel that such limited mobility would have prevented in the past.
Watch this amazing video:
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sheila Feb 4th 2013 5:37PM
I wish the planes would also have closed captioning on all tv monitors for hearing impaired.
Maricelabe Feb 5th 2013 1:50AM
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Dave C. Feb 7th 2013 1:07PM
I have a slight stutter to my speech and when I get nervous, tired, or upset, my stutter gets worst. I was trying to add my trip to my Delta Skymiles program. As most of you now, you had to do a lot by computer voice. First few questions I was able to say without any problems. I think question #4 was "what month is your departure?". I tried to say April, but it took like nine tries and computer said something like "we will come back to it. Question #5 "what month is your arrival back or something like that"? As you are laughing now, it was April. And since I was getting mad, the stutter was getting worst, the computer could bot understand me during the nine or so tries. Finally after about 45 minutes, the computer told me that me that it was sending me to a representative. Well guess what, after waiting like 5 minutes of music, i had calm down down to the point that my speech/stutter was back to a good point, I had a lady that was from Asia and she could not understand me and i was not stuttering. I was able to email a co-worker of mine to come to my office and she spoke for me and the representative could not even understand her. I finally gave up. Sent Delta a letter, never got anything back from them. Since them, I try to avoid Delta as much as possible, but living in Georgia, it is hard to not go through Atlanta due to a cheaper ticket(s).