allenApr 14

@TechConnectify
If you love subtle audio cues, Japanese train stations are going to blow your mind.

Someone made a 20-minute audio compilation of assistive cue recordings, and 3/4 of them are various bird sounds to signal the way out from a train platform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGDLy29quy0

Another one I know of is in the JR East area: the (perceived) gender of the speaker denotes whether a recorded announcement is for the even number platform or odd.

#trains #accessibility #blind #transit #railway

【鳥の鳴き声など】JR東日本 駅 盲導鈴集

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Show threadJo - pièce de résistance
@allen @TechConnectify
Oh I love the idea of bird sounds as signal noises instead of beeps and other sharp noises. I wish #TTC line 5 would do this. The current noises are awful for those with noise sensitivity.
#accessibility #toronto
Apr 29 at 5:48pmWeb
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK6d ago

@JoBlakely @allen @TechConnectify

its a good idea even if you are sighted but unfamiliar with the area, as whilst there's generally all manner of noisy things in the train/metro station and often alarm beeps for doors opening/closing, you instinctively associate birds with "outside"...