Hi Prateek, Riding escalator is probably one of the easiest thing to do for a blind folks. I will try to describe how it works but feel free to reach out to me for detail clearification. 1. Always stick to the railing (left or right) 2. Put your right leg first on the stairs. But please hold through the railing. 3. Put your right ankle firm on the ground while your toes is slightly lifted like a slope. 4. When time come for getting off the escalator; your toe would feel plain surface and then you know that destination is reached. Note your left or right railing is moving upward and when it reaches the destination; then railing flattens and move downward.
Hope this made sense and hope you could try it. It works in my case. Mohammed Asif Iqbal -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of prateek aggarwal Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 9:57 AM To: accessindia; rpp-india; youthRI Subject: [AI] help needed: for using escalators hi folks, hope you all are doing great. With all the traveling I've been doing from past whatever months to different parts of world, one of the problems I'm facing is to cope with escalators. Escalators are becoming common in Indian structures too, but I found a lot of escalators at various places especially in countries like US, UK etc. No matter whatever I've tried, I haven't been able to independently use the escalators, and in fact, found myself in a strange nuisance all the times I have to use them. for Those who don't know, I'm a totally blind. Though I manage to take someone's help to climb through escalators, but even in that case find a lot uneasiness, particularly due to the strange manner most of the people use to help me. Sometimes, 2 people holding my hands from both the sides, shouting like hell when I have to further my leg, and all that irritates me to the crest. I feel like a victim and find a serious discomfiture. Since many of you have been traveling across the world and using escalators from quite sometime now, I request you to kindly share your experiences on how do you cope with them. Since I do not have any sight available, it'll be helpful if you can help me by describing from that perspective. So, can you please guide me on the following? 1. how to determine when to further the legs when you are totally blind and can not catch the visual signals? 2. is there a technique to do it independently? 3. I feel a little apprehensive about risk of legs to get wedged into the stairways. Is there a way out? Your valuable guidance will be of great use, not just for me, but for lot of others like me. Hoping to have some positive responses. Regards, Prateek agarwal. Director, Daedal technovations pvt. Ltd. www.daedaltechnovations.com we bring the change we wish to see! Website: www.prateekagarwal.tk | www.prateekagarwal.webs.com To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
