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Overview:
Accessible Design for the Blind is committed to making travel safer for pedestrians with disabilities through research, consultation, education and advocacy. Its principals have a long history of teaching safe travel and street crossing techniques to pedestrians who are blind or visually impaired, many of whom also have cognitive, mobility or hearing impairments. Building on this direct service background, they have undertaken an extensive research program designed to make the built environment more accessible to pedestrians with disabilities. The principals of ADB , Billie Louise (Beezy) Bentzen and Janet Barlow, are Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists who authored the Syntheses on Accessible Pedestrian Signals and on Detectable Warnings for the U.S. Access Board. These two publications provide the most comprehensive review of these topics. ADB is currently revising the APS synthesis as part of NCHRP 3-62. The principals are also involved with standards development as members of the National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the American National Standards Institute Committee A117, On Accessible And Usable Environments, the Public Rights Of Way Access Advisory Committee, and The International Organization For Standards (ISO). Current projects involve research and the development of guidelines and instructional materials on the use of Accessible Pedestrian Signals, research on Detectable Warnings and wayfinding technologies, and creation of... | |
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