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...so I thought I'd explore my son's old college, St Cats, but "that page has vanished" is all it says.... Regards, John -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Teresa Pedroso Sent: 25 May 2016 9:46 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Making building maps more usable Dear Beck, Oxford University recently changed its maps' interface (https://maps.ox.ac.uk/) and connected it to the university's Access Guide which has more specific information about individual buildings (https://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/access/). Best wishes, Teresa -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Beck Maguire Sent: 25 May 2016 09:21 To: Teresa Pedroso Subject: Re: Making building maps more usable Hi Natalya, Thank you so much for getting back to me. This looks really interesting (especially the stuff around the maps for the ESLC here at Nottingham)! I'll keep in touch with how we move forwards with this in case it's of any use to you in future. Thanks again Beck -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Natalya Dell Sent: 24 May 2016 11:44 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Making building maps more usable Hi I haven't done building floor plans for workwork but I have done thema few times for BiCon a convention I have helped run at UK University campuses for several years. Over 50% of BiCon's delegates define as disabled, especially high numbers with autism spectrum and MH conditions such as anxiety so organising teams usually produce an access report and sometimes floor plans in advance. I did Nottingham's ESLC last year - the curviness was fun even if the building itself was sensory-overload-tastic :). Whole campus maps: 2015 Nottingham: last 2 pages of PDF have floor plans http://2015.bicon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BiCon-2015-bisexuality-convention-handbook.pdf We printed these in large colour and put them around the venue to help our delegates orient themselves. In hindsight my colours weren't great but were part of a theme and it was useful to work out which side things were on. I got the original plan PDFs from the venue's conference team. 2011 Leicester Oadby campus: Whole campus map + 2 of the buildings our convention used http://2011.bicon.org.uk/venue/access-report/ We used the same colour signage to direct people between buildings for consistency. 2014 Leeds Trinity: 2nd page of PDF is whole campus map. The last 2 pages are floor plans of the two floors we used http://2014.bicon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bicon-2014-handbook-2.0.pdf We used rainbow colour coding for the room labels. The way I made these plans was generally to get a PDF of the university's own maps and then use Inkscape a free vector art package to open them and trace the outline of the image and the key rooms and components we wanted to show. I then added layers with labels and different colours from the outline so I could quickly produce an outline only or outline+labels version. Drawing them out did take a bit of time, but I've learned how to do them quite quickly now. Natalya On 24/05/16 10:44, Beck Maguire wrote: > Dear All, > > At Nottingham, we are currently looking into how we can make our > building plans more usable for disabled students. We’ve had feedback > to say that students would like to have an accessible document which > outlines key things such as where the reception is, lifts, accessible > toilets, parking nearby and so on – practical information to help them > to use a building more easily and quickly. 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