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3 Key Points to Ensure Access for Sight Impaired Consumers

If you are managing a facility, the first thing that you need to ensure is to provide safe and easy access to sight-impaired consumers. Your organization must follow the best practices to make your facilities inclusive to make the facility safe, and accessible to all consumers who either have a physical disability or are visually impaired.               So, let’s take a look at the three key points to ensure access for sight-impaired consumers:  Use Contrast Colors    You can use different types of lighting and contrasting colors to allow your sight-impaired consumers to identify different surfaces. For example, you can add a colored strip along the stair edges to help your consumers easily watch out for the stairs with a lesser chance of falling accidents.     2.      Provide Tactile Flooring Tactile tiles are raised tiles with specific patterns that are useful in assisting visually impaired consumers. So, you can use  tactile ground surface indicators   while designing the

Top 4 Code-Compliant TWSI Solutions Including Ontario Surface Applied Fire-Resistant tile

  Safe accessibility is necessary, and it is important for everyone to use code-compliant materials and products for safe and hassle-free movement around the property. So here we are listing the top 4 Canadian code-compliant solutions for your needs: 1: Ontario Surface Applied Fire-Resistant tile  – This tile provided by Compliance Solutions Canada is made from FIRE SENTRY-X Composite Technology that offers extreme resistance against fire. As the name suggests, it is the first surface-applied tactile tile that complies with Ontario building code requirements and ULC- S 102.2 fire standard at less than 50 smoke and less than 25 flames for maximum safety and durability.   These surface-applied tiles are a cost-effective solution to apply tactile warning surface indicators at your desired interiors like lobbies, exit stairwells, or corridors. Accessible Fire-Resistant Surface Applied Tile with Attention Domes ensure a smooth transition with its beveled edges and is easy to cut to co