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Signage AUDIT

This AUDIT measures the accessibility of signage, including placement, font size, contrast and more. The AUDIT has three sections, including accessibility, usability, and a scoring sheet.

R2D2 Center at the U W-Milwaukee

Signage AUDIT  (Excel Document)

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Posted by: AJensen15 on Tue Dec 15, 2020 at 6:41 p.m.

This audit was very detailed. It contained all of the information someone would need to know about the accessibility for any type of sign along with accessible locations for signs.

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Posted by: pgresens9 on Thu Dec 17, 2020 at 1:55 p.m.

Very thorough! The audit is inclusive to all disabilities and includes important characteristics of signage.

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Posted by: MeganMoran247 on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 7:49 p.m.

Signage is one aspect about many public areas that I don't think is considered enough. This AUDIT provides a thorough and in depth description of everything that would make signage more accessible for all, but particular for individuals who may have a vision sensory impairment. Including these requirements in future construction plans and renovations would make any location much more useful and accessible friendly.

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Posted by: PaholaGG on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 2:14 p.m.

I’m don’t love the format and look of this resource, but I do think it provides very thorough content- information varying from visual characteristics to line spacing, and locations. All the content presented in this resource is very useful when evaluating signage.

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It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability