Japan’s Public Facilities Making Life Easier for Colorblind
- Posted by Daniel Flück on April 4th, 2006 filed in Stories
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TMCnet reported that Japan’s local governments and the private sector spport approaches to make life a little easier for people with weak color-discerning ability. They advise railway companies to improve their timetables and railway maps to be at least readable by people suffering from red-green color blindness. As there have more than 3 million Japanese a congentinal red-green color vision deficency this improves the public services a lot.
Yosuke Tanaka, 37, who was a member of a civic group says:
Few complaints are heard, because many colorblind people want to conceal the impairment to avoid discrimination.
Japan tries to improve the situtation slowly providing barrier-free facilities with so called “universal designs”. These take into account the different kinds of color vision deficiencies and are readable for all people.
Further reading:
Japan’s Public Facilities Making Life Easier for Colorblind
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