Proceedings of: Workshop on Improving Building Design for Persons with Low Vision

Implementation Challenges for Interiors (slides 16 and 17)

And then just some different thoughts for how we’re going to implement [these solutions].

Prescriptive requirements are great, [if they are] backed by research, but that also may limit the design creativity and options and force someone to design something somewhere that may not [have] the best [performance]. Every scenario is different, so how do we allow for any unique situations for design?

Items that we can work on in the ADA [include]:

• Detectable warnings. Can we bring that into the building somehow and require that strip at every stair in an egress stairwell?

• Protruding objects. How can we improve that so that [protrusions] are not such obstacles?

• Improving egress signage?

Comments by [three Participants]: There’s one other aspect of the detectable warnings that people don’t think about. In the past, [we] have been required to have truncated cones covering the entire surface. For someone in a wheelchair, that is literally hell. And you’ve got to get back up and get out of the street. Exactly. So that’s a really bad idea.