Sign for the blind - but how on earth are they going to read it?

[webfact]

Sign for the blind - but how on earth are they going to read it?

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Thai netizens were struggling to understand the point of a sign for the blind that appeared in a building.

 

The sign said: "All blind people please hold the metal handrail throughout the building".

 

The yellow sticker was posted online by "Kittisak Toppenstein Thowsombat" on Facebook.

 

There was no sign of braille to be seen.

 

Netizens conjectured that not all visually impaired people were totally blind.

 

And the sign might be for the able-sighted to help the visually impaired get about.

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-05-17

[Get Real]

Thai logic as its best.

[colinneil]

4 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Thai logic as its best.

Just about the same as the wheelchair ramps here, that bloody steep even with somebody pushing you impossible to use.

[PatOngo]

Even Blind Freddie can see what is happening to this country!

[Get Real]

44 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Just about the same as the wheelchair ramps here, that bloody steep even with somebody pushing you impossible to use.

Yeah, I both seen them and used them. Have a friend that is bound to a wheelchair.

[colinneil]

Just now, Get Real said:

Yeah, I both seen them and used them. Have a friend that is bound to a wheelchair.

You have used them !! Wow you must be a strong person.

There is a wheelchair ramp near our home, it took my wife and 1 man to get me up it.

Somebody thinks didnt i do a good job fixing that notice for blind people, clever me.

[Get Real]

4 minutes ago, colinneil said:

You have used them !! Wow you must be a strong person.

Nah, I would guess my friend is a pretty small guy.  Lucky me!

[peperobi]

Absolutely intelligent! Is it a government building?

[Juan B Tong]

Aw come on guys!

It is a step in the right direction.

 

[KiwiKiwi]

Classic.

[Krataiboy]

The blind leading the blind.

 

Or a sight for sore eyes.

 

Sorry.

[inactiveposter]

When my daughter started college in Boston, I took her to a nice restaurant and on the walk we crossed an intersection that had chirping bird sounds to indicate for blind people when it was safe to cross. She hadn’t seen one before and thought it was a great idea. So for fun, I asked her what they did for deaf people. (The perfect set up for a Dad joke.) She thought for a moment and said she didn’t know. I said, “Nothing. They’re deaf, not blind!”

[Misterwhisper]

Perhaps there is braille embossed on all the handrails mentioned, saying "If you bump into this, please go search for a sign that will instruct you how to use it." 

[huahinboilerman]

here in uk on some pedestrian traffic lights we have a spinning/vibrating button which tells deaf/blind persons there route is green

 

[RichardColeman]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai netizens were struggling to understand the point of a sign for the blind that appeared in a building.

God help them if the have the same in the lift - they will be going round in circles until election day !

[Fruit Trader]

Street signs must allow for all circumstances.

 

 

[aussie11950]

1 hour ago, inactiveposter said:

When my daughter started college in Boston, I took her to a nice restaurant and on the walk we crossed an intersection that had chirping bird sounds to indicate for blind people when it was safe to cross. She hadn’t seen one before and thought it was a great idea. So for fun, I asked her what they did for deaf people. (The perfect set up for a Dad joke.) She thought for a moment and said she didn’t know. I said, “Nothing. They’re deaf, not blind!”

In Australia, the pedestrian crossing boxes ( where you push the button) will vibrate on green as well as chirp  and it has braile generally too 

[kennypick]

This is very similar to the footpaths where they have dimpled tiles in the center of the footpaths for the blind, then they stick concrete posts or telephone boxes in the middle of them to walk into.

[chickenslegs]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai netizens were struggling to understand the point of a sign for the blind that appeared in a building.

 

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Netizens conjectured that not all visually impaired people were totally blind.

And the sign might be for the able-sighted to help the visually impaired get about.

 

Seems the "netizens" have asked and answered their own question.

[Sir Dude]

Stupid...so moronic

 

[losername]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

And the sign might be for the able-sighted to help the visually impaired get about.

That's it.  Decades ago I was skiing as a sighted guide for blind ex-servicemen.  They wore tabards with a  sign of yellow or orange background with three bold black dots on them indicating a blind skier.  Everyone on the slopes, from the youngest learner to the oldest veteran,  knew the sign and was able to assist in safe skiing for all by allowing for the circumstances.  A brief search on Google seems to suggest that this sign is no longer used but it worked for us and was multilingual.

[fantom]

9 hours ago, colinneil said:

Just about the same as the wheelchair ramps here, that bloody steep even with somebody pushing you impossible to use.

The Australian standard for wheelchair ramps is a maximum grade of 1:14. Ramps here are frequently 1:8 and less. Useless for most people in wheelchairs.

 

I have arranged and designed building access incorporating ramps more times than I care to remember.

 

[colinneil]

9 minutes ago, fantom said:

The Australian standard for wheelchair ramps is a maximum grade of 1:14. Ramps here are frequently 1:8 and less. Useless for most people in wheelchairs.

 

I have arranged and designed building access incorporating ramps more times than I care to remember.

 

Spot on mate, in the UK it is1.12, i constructed a few myself over the years.

The first 1 i did was too steep and ha to be ripped out, cost me a fair bit, i never made that mistake again.

[AsiaHand]

13 hours ago, Get Real said:

Thai logic as its best.

And I thought that it was a stupid idea when I saw that they installed  braille on the ATM s at the drive up areas at the bank .I could not quite picture a blind person driving up to the ATM and using it to get his money.

[Maestro]

Removed a troll post.

[tryasimight]

20 hours ago, AsiaHand said:

And I thought that it was a stupid idea when I saw that they installed  braille on the ATM s at the drive up areas at the bank .I could not quite picture a blind person driving up to the ATM and using it to get his money.

 

Blind driver prank.mp4

[attrayant]

Here's another puzzle: how do the deer know they're supposed to cross here?

 

[AsiaHand]

On ‎18‎/‎5‎/‎2561 at 8:27 PM, attrayant said:

Here's another puzzle: how do the deer know they're supposed to cross here?

 

Maybe going to Deer School ? Or is for the lazy hunter to wait here ?

[Puwa]

I almost never see blind people in Thailand navigating without the aid of a seeing person. I think once or twice I've seen guide dogs in Bkk.