Accessible Everything

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Nicaragua:

“La mayoría de sordos del país sigue sin ir a la escuela. Según datos de la Asociación Nacional de Sordos de Nicaragua (Ansnic) sólo un poco más del 20.8 por ciento de los que carecen de capacidad auditiva asiste a clases.

Es decir que de las 12 mil personas que no oyen en Nicaragua, sólo 2,500 logra estudiar. “La mayoría no va la escuela porque el colegio les queda largo de sus comunidades y porque no hay suficientes instructores del lenguaje de señas”, explica Sandra López, de Ansnic y de la Asociación de Intérpretes del Lenguaje de Señas de Nicaragua.”

Mas

Fuente: El Nuevo Diario

Play&Tour Routes for People with Disabilities

By Craig Grimes

On the 27th May 2008 I blogged about Play&Tour and their new audio guides in Barcelona and beyond. Whilst in Barcelona I met with the company and discussed how we could move the project forward for people with disabilities. We have agreed to create a map with various routes without barriers for wheelchair users and clearly mark them on their PDF maps. As well as this we will also show the locations of establishments that have facilities for people with disabilities along each route.

In the near future we will also be testing routes with the Catalan Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired to establish whether the audio guide may be useful for people with visual impairments. We are also looking at the possibility of creating a Universal GPS Guide for Barcelona that can be used by people with physical disabilities, blind, deaf and the wider general public. More details to come about this project later in the year or early 2009.

However, until this is available you can still download the general Barcelona audio guide for MP3 players, iPods and mobile phones here.

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