American Council of the Blind (ACB) has updated its Pedestrian Safety Handbook. The book addresses contemporary approaches to ensuring safe paths of travel for blind pedestrians and effective ways to advocate for accommodations such as accessible pedestrian signals, tactile warnings at the edges of curb ramps and mechanisms for routing travelers safely through problematic intersections. “The last time we updated our Pedestrian Safety Handbook, quiet cars were still driving through the imaginations of vehicle designers,” says ACB President Mitch Pomerantz. “Our role as advocates becomes more complex in ways we might never have even imagined.” Read and download the document here.
A Blog From the American Society of Safety Engineers
