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NY Disability Pride Parade Draws Thousands Marking Milestone

Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Jul 13, 2015

About 4 percent of New York’s yellow cabs are accessible, said Allan Fromberg, a spokesman for the city’s Taxi and Limousine Commission, compared to London, where every taxi can handle wheelchairs.

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Insights on Gender Neutral Restroom Pictograms

Posted by ADA Sign Depot on May 18, 2015

Insights on Gender Neutral Restroom Pictograms This article originally published in LGBT Weekly. It is excerpted with permission Read the full article by Autumn Sandeen here: http://lgbtweekly.com/2015/02/19/a-restroom-pictogram-that-sends-the-wrong-message Many transgender people prefer gender neutral public restrooms. For many early in transition, or with genderqueer or gender nonconforming appearance, it’s because choosing a designated male or female bathroom is often a choice between getting yelled at or getting beat up. Restrooms need signs, and the ADA has minimum requirements for public restroom signs. These requirements are: • Gender pictogram(s) to show gender use of the bathroom. • The International Symbol for Accessibility...

Daniel Kish, aka, Batman: How the Blind Can See with Sonar

Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Apr 13, 2015

Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to “see” using a form of echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce off surfaces in the environment and return to him, helping him to construct an understanding of the space around him. In a rousing talk, Kish demonstrates how this works and asks us to let go of our fear of the “dark unknown.”