Universal Design in Asia

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.