So close, and yet...

[pauamma]

Bathroom in train from Stratford to London. Can you tell what's missing?

Comments

[staranise]

OFFS. You're KIDDING ME.

[pauamma]

I wish.

[jackandahat]

(Deleted last comments because having two was silly - I guessed, then corrected myself because I'd been looking for something physically missing.)

Hmm, thinking on it - I keep being told "Most people who are legally blind can see something" so I wondered if the intent was for people who are unable to see enough to read small lettering, but would be able to pick up on light vs dark?

...or am I giving them too much credit?

[subluxate]

I think probably too much credit. I know a guy who's blind from birth, genetically, as is his son, and they'd not be able to see the lights at all.

[jackandahat]

*nods* Yeah, I figured I was probably assuming way too much sense there.

[exor674]

Well.... uh... maybe you are expected to feel the heat from the lights or something.... or...

okay, that's total fail.

[archersangel]

Well.... uh... maybe you are expected to feel the heat from the lights or something.... or...

maybe

okay, that's total fail.

it is.

[pauamma]

I actually wondered about feeling the heat - but at best, that would tell you "this was lit for a while recently", not "this is lit *right now*"

[trialia]

*facepalm*

[majoline]

That is SO... SO... RAWR.

[rainbow]

*blink* please tell me there's a way to differentiate between the 2 buttons if one is, you know, blind? lit one vibrates or something?

[pauamma]

Not that I could notice (I pretty much had the same reaction when I saw it). And the Braille text says "door unlocked/locked when lit", just as the print text.

[sasha_feather]

Wow, that's almost brilliant in it's failure. Took me a few seconds to figure it out.

[azurelunatic]

I was staring at that (with my, you know, EYES), trying to SEE what was missing, and then I saw the little bumps and facepalmed.

[labrat]

Oh you have got to be kidding me!

We're almost totally blind, except for light perception, but from the sound of it those are teeny, tiny lights. And even with our light perception, in a lit bathroom, and as small as they sound, we wouldn't be able to see them. On top of that, we'd practically have to jam our face against the sign to see the lights at all, even if the bathroom were pitch dark.

In short... FAIL!

[pauamma]

IIRC, these were 1-1.5 in. wide (the squarish bit showing a padlock, which is lit solid and thus presumably easiest to see). Maybe 2 in. at the outside. Not that it would matter to someone with no light perception at all.