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SkScotchegg

SkScotchegg

SkScotchegg

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I've been to coop today for a tin of tomatoes to go with my fry-up to help cure my hang over and anyways you wont believe this but I thought I'd get a box of Muesli and I've just noticed on the side that its got brail on it, you know that thing that blind people touch and they can feel it with their fingures and they can read from it? I think you call it brail. Well anyways yeah, thats on the side of the box so they can read the ingrediants on it.

Just thought that was kinda different, never seen that before, but I guess its a good idea and maybe all products should have that on the side.

I also noticed after 15 years of using my inhalers that there's brail on the bottom of them too, I didnt work that out today I noticed that a few months ago but still.


SkScotchegg:D
 
Nitefly said:
The real question is.... why have brail on a stop button on a bus?
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So that blind people know that it's the stop button? I assume it has "stop" written on it so that sighted people know what it is too.

The Open/Close buttons on train doors have Braille on them too, presumably for the same reason.
 
Also, a friend told me that under that box at traffic lights where you can press the buttom to cross the roads, theres a little thing that you twist instead of pressing the button, that seems kinda pointless to me, I mean come on, they're blind not stupid, am sure they can press a button, why do they need to twist a knob?


SkScotchegg:D
 
taliesyn said:
It's called braille, and what's strange about that? Blind people need to know what they're buying too.
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Chill out.

He said it was "different", jsut because 95% of products don't include information for the handi-capped.

Braille on buses has never made sense, if your that blind you're gonna first struggle to find the pole, then the button, just seems silly...
 
St.Josh said:
Might be so blind people know what the button they are pressing is?
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Mr^B said:
So that blind people know that it's the stop button? I assume it has "stop" written on it so that sighted people know what it is too.

The Open/Close buttons on train doors have Braille on them too, presumably for the same reason.
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I think they would have to be pretty 1337 to know when to press it.
 
Mr^B said:
So that blind people know that it's the stop button?
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How are they going to find it?
Surely they can't just start swinging their arms when they need to get off.
How do they even know they need to get off?
They must have someone with them or something and then there's no need for brail.
 
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