Neat idea: 40 people with disabilities use mobile phones to photograph every obstacle they come across on the city’s streets. By means of multimedia messages they create a map of inaccessible Barcelona on the internet.
Pingmag has an enlightening article about design for blind people online and in Tokyo. There are similarities to some of the devices I’ve seen deployed in Brussels but they seem several steps ahead over there.
This is a fantastic idea: integrating tactile maps on pedestrian crossing buttons to help sight-impaired people get a lay of the land. These exact signal boxes are used here, but I don't think I've ever seen the map module on them. That's a shame.
