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Full History - 2021 - 09 - 07 - ID#pjkuaf
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Designing public spaces for people with visual impairment & no vision. (self.Blind)
submitted by shauryadubey
Hi everyone, I am a design student and as a part of my thesis project, I am working to design public spaces such as museums and art galleries in such a way that people with vision disabilities may not face many difficulties.
Currently, the topic is too broad and I need to make it more specific for which I am seeking help.
I have a few questions and it would be great if I could get some clarity on that by people of this community who face issues in vision:
1.) What is your source of entertainment?
2.) Do you like visiting museums and art galleries?
3.) If you have visited any of these spaces in past, how was your experience? What are the difficulties that you faced?
4.) What other public spaces did you visit often?
5.) Is boarding a train or a bus concern for you? If yes, can you tell me a few of the difficulties that you face?
6.) Do you play any sort of games?


It would be great if I could get some help. If you are up for one-one conversation, that would be great too, let me know.
team_nanatsujiya 4 points 1y ago
Legally blind, some remaining vision. I've never liked visiting art galleries or museums because they're so boring to me, and when I was younger it kind of didn't occur to me why. I can't read any of the plaques with information about the exhibits, so I just wander around looking at old pottery with no idea why it's noteworthy. Audio guides always cost extra and often have very short explanations where there's clearly a much longer written description on the wall that's too small for me to read without being in the way of anyone else trying to read it (if I can read it at all, and even if I can it's very tiring).

As for other public spaces--I'm not sure if this is really what you're looking for, but fast food restaurants and cafes usually have menus above the counter that 99 times out of 100 are too small to read. In the US they're legally required to accommodate visual impairments by having a printed menu that I can hold and get close too but obviously none do. If I use my phone's camera to zoom in to the menu, they tell me I'm not allowed to take pictures of the menu and refuse to listen when I try to tell them that I'm just trying to read their menu.

Do you mean video games? I do like some but there's tons that are extremely difficult because of my vision: anything with too much text is tiring; very fast and visually busy scenes, like melee-style fighting games, are basically impossible; I'm also colorblind so anything relying too heavily on color is too, and when it could have easily been designed to not use colors it's extremely frustrating. I don't play many board games or tabletop games because they usually involve seeing something across the board, small text, or colors.

Hope some of this helped!
shauryadubey [OP] 3 points 1y ago
These are some great insights. Thanks mate!
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