Guidelines

What are tactile indicators used for?

What are tactile indicators used for?

What are Tactile Indicators used for? The purpose of Tactile Ground Surface Indicators (TGSI) is to give pedestrians who are blind, or who have vision impairment warning of hazards and directional information to aid navigation of the urban environment.

How many Tactiles are in a m2?

There are 44 Directional Bars in a Square Metre (26.66 x 1.666 = 44).

Where are tactile warning strips required?

Like the warning surfaces used to indicate sidewalk curbs, tactile warning strips are required to be placed along the length of train/subway platforms and other potentially dangerous areas at transit stations.

What are tactile warning strips?

Our tactile strips are polyurethane self-adhesive guides for visually impaired people to help guide them in a space. A linear strip helps visually impaired people follow a path with their white stick. These tactile strips are compatible with homogeneous and heterogeneous vinyl floors, LVT glue-down tiles and Linoleum.

What is a tactile warning?

Tactile Warning of Danger (TWD) are an example of a special packaging requirement that help to protect vulnerable people (i.e. the blind or partially sighted) when particularly hazardous chemicals are made available to the general public.

What is tactile example?

The definition of tactile is touchable or sensed by the touch. An example of tactile is a book written in Braille. adjective.

What is tactile warning surfacing?

Also commonly referred to as tactile warning surfaces, these types of tiles are built into or applied on top of existing sidewalks, walkways, transit platforms, and other walking surfaces on which visually impaired pedestrians may travel.

What does a tactile warning surface indicator mean?

A directional guidance/wayfinding indicator (linear bar surface) facilitates wayfinding in open areas and indicates an alternative route that may be taken. Ontario Building Code Compliance Tactile Warning Surface Indicators (TWSI)

What are the colour requirements for tactile indicators?

Colour Requirements: Tactile Indicators must have a luminance contrast to the surrounding ground surface, i.e., light grey tactile indicators installed to light grey concrete will not achieve a luminance contrast.

How tall does a tactile warning system need to be?

11B-70S.2 Detectable directional texture. Detectable directional texture at transit boarding platforms shall comply with Figure 11 B-705.2 and shall be 0.1 inch (2.5 mm) in height that tapers off to 0.04 inch (1.0 mm), with bars raised 0.2 inch (5.1 mm) from the surface.

Are there any tactile ground surface indicators in Australia?

Safety & Civil Supply Co. offers one of the largest ranges of standards compliant tactile ground surface indicators in Australia, with a product suitable for every substrate. Our range of tactiles includes individual plastic and 316 SS studs, integrated self adhesive polyurethane and rubber matting in both formats.