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2. ADA Signs - Wikipedia

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   The term "ADA Signs" has come into common use in the architectural, construction and signage industries with the advent of the Americans With Disabilities Act, or ADA.The Americans with Disabilities Act regulates accessibility; and includes requirements for signage that is conveniently located and easy to read both visually and through tactile touch.

3. International Symbol of Access - Wikipedia

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   In the late 1960s, with the rise of universal design, there grew a need for a symbol to identify accessible facilities. [3] In 1968, Norman Acton, President of Rehabilitation International (RI), tasked Karl Montan, chairman of the International Commission of Technology and Accessibility (ICTA), to develop a symbol as a technical aid and present in the group's 1969 World Congress convention in ...

4. Tactile signing - Wikipedia

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   As the decades progressed, deafblind people began to form communities where tactile language were born. Just as deaf people brought together in communities first used invented forms of spoken language and then created their own natural languages which suited the lives of deaf-sighted people (i.e. visual languages), so too, deafblind people in communities first used modified forms of visual ...

5. Ohio State School for the Blind - Wikipedia

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   In the early 1900s, the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind became known as the Ohio State School for the Blind. [4] In the mid-1950s the school moved to its current location at 5220 N. High St on the ground of a defaulted golf course. Over its history, the school has seen a vast change in its population and demographics, originally ...

6. GPS for the visually impaired - Wikipedia

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   Candle is an open-source navigation app hosted on Github using OpenStreetMap, designed for the visually impaired. It features VoicePins for personalized location annotations, an 'Explore Near Me' function for discovering nearby points of interest, comprehensive Google_TalkBack support, and a feedback-enabled compass.

7. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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   President Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. House vote and Senate vote. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) authored what became the final bill and was its chief sponsor in the Senate. Harkin delivered part of his introduction speech in sign language, saying it was so his deaf brother could understand. [46]