This past weekend, for my interiors studio we had gone to Seattle, WA to observe the Seattle Public Library. Not only is this a phenomenal library to go to, but it handled accessibility issues extremely well. There is a section for ESL as well as providing technology for physical disabilities such as blindness and deafness. The floor that this area is on is a relief sculpture of words, similar to a letter press. What is interesting about this is that the floor boards act as a guiding system that I don't believe the architect planned for. They lead people toward the walls where the technology for deaf and blind people were.
In observing this area for quite sometime, there was someone who was blind who guided themselves fairly well through the space, with a great quickness speed and agility that I would not have initially assumed. This made me think about how (if they have had blindness for quite sometime) they are fully functional and do not appear to be inhibited whatsoever. The only indicator was the blind stick that this person was holding.
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