Sunday, August 7, 2011

In Germany, tourist sites work on better disability accessibility

From Deutsche Welle. In the picture, the Wild Kermeter trail features tactile models for blind and visually impaired visitors.The German tourism sector is full of historical landmarks strongly protected by the law - often a barrier to improving handicap accessibility. But the free access of disabled people is on a steady upward path. In western Germany, on about 110 square kilometers of land that