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Dear All, I sent the following message to Dave Laycock instead of the list as a whole (hit the reply button without checking mailer's address - I hadn't had my first dose of caffeine). So am attaching my question and his reply. Does anybody else have any comments? Yours, Karin ==== > What about visually impaired people? Does anybody have any procedures > for helping them? Did you mean to send this to me only? Since partially sighted people can hear the alarm bells they are particularly among those it is worth rehersing the processes with. I toyed with the idea of having reflecting paint strips around exit door frames which would show up if smoke was beginning to build up. It is probably important to stress the need for them to inform the reception desk, or library reception where they are or intend to be. Otherwise it helps to know whether they going to be in a public space or on their own. It isn't easy and there can be complications with the best solutions. For example, it seems obvious that you could put flashing lights for deaf people over exit door frames for partially sighted people. But if you do then the deaf people will almost certainly not see them! Dave Laycock MBE Head of CCPD, Chair of NFAC Computer Centre for People with Disabilities University of Westminster 72 Great Portland Street London W1N 5AL tel. 0171-911-5161 fax. 0171-911-5162 WWW home page: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/ccpd/ Karin Alderson RFB Centre University of Wales Swansea Singleton Park Swansea SA2 8PP, UK Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1792 295901 Email: [log in to unmask] Web page: http://www.swan.ac.uk/library/recblind.htm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%