APPENDIX 22: Comments about Opinion of RIAS
Question: “What is your overall opinion of Talking Signs?”
Ss # |
Response |
1 |
Helpful, know where you are |
2 |
Don't have to ask others, pretty good, needed for blind travelers |
3 |
Great, wonderful, helpful |
4 |
Should be installed all over, really needed, would make travel easier, make travel safer, never would get lost |
5 |
Great help for blind, able to find more information, know where you're at, helps find transit, I'm impressed |
6 |
Very useful but don't ignore normal cues; it's unobtrusive so public should like |
7 |
Pretty good device, helpful, makes life a lot easier |
8 |
Great invention for blind travel |
9 |
Very good for blind, vision-impaired, dyslexic, learning differences & developmentally disabled |
10 |
Very helpful for independent travel, non-intrusive device to provide visual info for blind & vision-impaired, safer, confident, independent, financial benefits, less accidents & fatalities |
11 |
They're great, (I am) very supportive, want them installed all over |
12 |
Represents a major breakthrough, independent travel for blind & vision-impaired |
13 |
Should be installed where there are signs, I love them, want them, very helpful, needed wayfinding tool |
14 |
Good, make travel easy, gives good info, hope they are installed universally |
15 |
Love them, very useful, great tool for vision-impaired, should be involved per ADA |
16 |
Very good, needs lots of user input, likes getting angle of intersection, wants more |
17 |
Should be installed everywhere, they are cool, they make travel easier, more independent, don't have to rely on others, don't get lost |
18 |
Good, better for those with no vision, likes them at bathrooms, street crossings, bus stop |
19 |
Excellent system, needs fine tuning |
20 |
Simple & eloquent solution to the problems of blind, independence, important to have more TS installed, should be in malls |
21 |
Pretty good, needs input from users |
22 |
Increases independence dramatically, provides new info about unfamiliar locations, can find out about things you wouldn't normally find, saves time locating hard to find places, not asking for help |
23 |
It's great for blind travelers, make you socially able to live like a sighted person |
24 |
Really like it, love the street sign information, helps make for more effective travel |
25 |
They are absolutely great, endorse city-wide installation |
26 |
Very positive, was apprehensive at first, very helpful, would use it many times a day, love the block # info |
27 |
Extremely important tool for access to the environment |
28 |
Awesome, provides equality, provides safety, confidence, hell of a lot less stress |
29 |
Great if installed all over, greatly enhances vision-impaired to become productive |
30 |
Great, the public needs it, could benefit everyone sighted also |
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