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Res facta quae tamen fingi potuit ([personal profile] pauamma) wrote in [community profile] accessibility_fail2011-08-21 10:14 pm
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So close, and yet...

Picture of panel inside train bathroom indicating whether door is locked, using lit symbols of locked and unlocked padlocks, about 1.5x1.5in. Print and braille text reading "door locked/unlocked when lit" point at the correct lights.

Bathroom in train from Stratford to London. Can you tell what's missing?
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[personal profile] labrat 2011-09-17 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
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!
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[personal profile] pauamma 2011-09-18 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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