Tactile Walking Surface Indicators: Improving Accessibility and Wayfinding for People with Vision Disabilities

The complexity of the built environment poses numerous and evolving wayfinding and other accessibility challenges for pedestrians with vision disabilities (PVD). Tactile Walking Surface Indicators (TWSI) are one tool that can be used to improve accessibility and safety within public-rights-of-way. In this webinar, the speakers will briefly review the requirements in the Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines (PROWAG) for detectable warnings on curb ramps and platform edges and outline the considerable research evidence that supports recommendations for the design and use of other types of TWSI that go beyond alerting PVD to a transition from a pedestrian to a vehicular way. Uses for other types of TWSI include but are not limited to: Indicating locations of transit stops and midblock crosswalks, orienting PVD to the direction of travel on crosswalks, and delineating the boundary between sidewalks and separated bicycle lanes.

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