Clear Signage and Orientation
Providing clear orientation and effective signage is essential to creating an inclusive beach environment. Signage must guide visitors of all abilities to facilities, services, and access points with ease, ensuring their journey is as independent and intuitive as possible.
- Install signage that uses universally recognizable symbols, high-contrast colors, and large fonts to ensure visibility and comprehension, including for those with visual impairments.
- Ensure signage is located at key points, such as entrances, parking areas, pathways, and accessible facilities.
- Include multilingual text or visual aids to accommodate diverse visitors.
- Provide detailed maps at entry points and intersections, showing the layout of the beach, the locations of facilities, distances, and recommended routes for mobility aids.
- Use wayfinding technology, such as QR codes on signs, to link to audio descriptions or digital maps for visitors with visual impairments.
- Regularly update and maintain signage to ensure accuracy and clear communication.
Sources
- Carers
- Children
- Cognitive
- Cognitive abilities
- Decolonial perspective
- Digital
- Digital barrier
- Enviroment
- Environmental
- Gender and generations
- Gender perspective
- Hearing impairment
- Low-education
- Low-income
- Older people
- Other
- Physical abilities and features
- Sensory and Physical
- Socioeconomic
- Visual impairment