… in their shoes. A couple of weeks ago, as I crossed the Alameda, I came across the following scene.
According to this article in Noticias, this is part of the Blind Accessible Tourism 2013 project of the Municipal Tourism Office. “During the tour, the participants experience the uncertainty that visually impaired people feel when walk the streets, and reflect on the importance of signs with street names written in Braille and audio traffic lights,” said Vladimir Martinez Lopez, who has been blind since age 11 and is the instructor for the course.
I blogged about the Braille street signs and the library for the blind and visually impaired soon after the signs began appearing at the beginning of 2012. Since then, I’ve seen them used by the sightless and intrigue and stimulate conversation among the sighted.
Now if they could just do something about the hazards of crossing the street at the intersections. Be they cars, buses, trucks, or motorcycles, they do not stop before turning a corner. Visually impaired or sighted, it’s like playing Russian Roulette!
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View From Casita Colibrí 
I’m a teacher of the visually impaired, that’s one of my degrees—we call them TVIs—and a lot of people here at Perkins are TVIs, teachers of the visually impaired. And I think that sometimes, because we’re so excited and interested in adapting for the blind, that we sometimes forget what sight allows us to do, what sight allows human beings to do naturally.