Accessibility visually impaired

Accessibility visually impaired

Guiding and information systems for the visually impaired.

In its interest in everybody’s acoustical comfort, Active Audio has committed to designing sound guidance systems to improve the autonomy of the visually impaired in public places since 2009. The National French Railway Company chose those audio beacons to equip all their railways stations by 2015, due date for the French law about Accessibility.

To date, more than a thousand audio beacons have been installed. Building on this success, Active Audio wished to develop its product line dedicated to accessibility with:

• a module including the audio beacon electronics. The deported electronic module can be associated with many different loudspeakers and thus to personalize the installation.
• a model suitable for pedestrian lights. Integrated in a pedestrian light, the Sagitone R12 card interprets the light signal and then transmit it to the user via a loudspeaker fixed beside the light.
• a system that broadcasts information given by an electrical display in real-time, if the latter is equipped with accessibility services.

Tactile solutions

Active Audio works with different partners, each expert in their domain, to make all buildings completely accessible for the visually impaired.

Their contacts

• Floor marking
• Tactile and multisensoriels maps- Tactile Studio

Good to know:

• In France, 1.7 million are suffering from vision loss
• Only 2% of the visually impaired know how to read braille
• 61 % of the visually impaired are over 60 years old
• In 2050, 1 habitant on 3 will be 60 years old or over, for 1 out of 5 in 2005.