Saturday
21Oct2006
Universal Design in Asia
Saturday, October 21, 2006 at 5:23PM 
Last weekend in Hong Kong, I spotted this sign in a taxi. The taxi number is provided both in braille as well as English as raised characters. Nice to see public transport people paying attention to accessibility.
We were talking about this when my brother mentioned Japanese beer cans having braille markings.
Japanese alcoholic drinks also carry an "alcohol" braille character on top to prevent visually disabled people from accidentally consuming it.
A depression on the milk carton (left) to distinguish it from other drinks.
Universal design is not just for visually disabled people. Here you see a shampoo and a conditioner bottle from Japan. The bottle on the left contains shampoo and it has markings on one of its sides to distinguish it from the conditioner.
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I never realised this before, thats awesome that there are packaging is visually-challenged friendly. :)
Accessible design in Asia...
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Well I didn't realize it until one day I had use the shampoo and I could only tell them apart because my friend had mentioned it to me.
[...] Spotted this post from Preetam, who came across what he wrote as “Universal Designs”. I’ve not seen Braille on Beer Cans — I thought it was a neat idea, when Preetam pointed out that it’s both to inform those Braille-readers who want to drink beer, as well as those who want to avoid accidentally consuming it. I titled the post “Accessible Design” rather than “Universal Design”, as I felt the term “Universal” was too broad. I’m not sure if any design can truly be “universally”, i.e. accessible by all. But I’m happy to be proven wrong! [...]
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