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Visually Impaired standards
Please can anyone let me know about the minimum height for letters on a sign, so that visually impaired people can read it. I have a 6′ x 4′ sign to site on a railway station and have struggled to get the customer to finalise everything and now he’s said that it all has to be able to be read for visually impaired people. ( this sign has been in the design stage for 5 months already! Just one last hurdle and I can see the end in sight )
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Never mind the visually impaired, what about the iliterate or Gaelic speakers. Surely they have as much right to extra consideration to accomodate their specialist requirements 😉
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Im just grateful that they havent asked for everything to be bi lingual, welsh/english……..dont speak welsh let alone write it!
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I have trouble speaking English,after a few pints that is, is there such a thing as a minimum height for letters for the partially sighted? Good question though and would to know the answer. If I find out I will let you know. Tony,.
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I have rummaged through my files and folders and found something which was sent to me ages ago from RNIB Wales which says that the minimum height for printed type ( Books etc ) is 16pt, but I dont know if this applies to signage or not. I would be interested to know if anyone else has done anything for the Visually impaired. I hope they dont go all politically correct on me and ask for Braille!
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I`d google it JEM.
I`d be looking for .gov websites or charity aid websites for that kind of information. Pretty sure it wouldn`t take long to find.
Rod
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Good suggestion, Rod, I did that and the Department for TRansport website had guidelines as follows
Long distance reading such as Building Entrances…….150mm min
Medium distance such as direction signs in corridors……50-100mm min
Close up reading such as wall mounted info signs……..15-25mm minSo problem solved
Cheers! 😀
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