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In my opinion the top and bottom should not differ from the others. Aisling Irvine NRAC Consultant All In Access Consultancy On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 13:13 Chris Cook, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi All! > > > > Please could I gauge the opinion of all on the list, who wish to reply to > the following question below. > > > > As I’m totally blind, it makes no difference to me whatsoever, but I’ve > been asked to canvas some expert opinion and thought that here would be a > good platform to do so. > > > > Many Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > Chris Cook. > > > > The value of highlighting the stair nosing on stairs is obviously well > known and to varying degrees of success this is a fairly standard > improvement that should now be the norm on new external stairs and > increasingly is being undertaken retrospectively on older stairs. > > In most cases the stair nosings will end up all one colour ( although > which colour can depend on the step itself), but on transport , > particularly rail, they can end up with most of the steps having a white > nosing whilst the top and bottom steps are just in yellow. This is > supposedly so you can identify where either the top or bottom or > intermediate landings are when looking at the steps. However , this > subtlety is often lost on most people and in fact the different colour can > cause confusion for people particularly where their sight is more limited > and so having made their way down a flight of stairs looking at each stair > nosing in turn they can get to the bottom one and think they have arrived > at the bottom and then actually miss the last step. > > However what do you think, keep them all the same colour or have the top > and bottom step in different colours, what do you think works best? > ----------End of Message---------- ----------End of Message----------