Inventory of assistive technologies and accessibility for deafblindness in Romania

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Program: Social Inclusion and Dignity 2021-2027

Title: Social Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities through Assistive and Accessibility Technologies – TECH ASSIST

SMIS Code: 325494

Call Code: PIDS/368/PIDS_P7/OP4

Beneficiary: National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Inventory of Internationally Recognized Assistive and Accessibility Technologies, with an Emphasis on Availability in the National Market

This document constitutes the Inventory of assistive and accessibility technologies created within the project “Social Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities through Assistive and Accessibility Technologies – TECH ASSIST,” with the objective of identifying, classifying, and contextualizing relevant assistive technologies for persons with disabilities. The document is built upon the internationally recognized classification, referencing the ISO 9999:2022 standard – “Assistive products for persons with disability” and the European information network on assistive products, EASTIN.

What are assistive and accessibility technologies?

According to the National Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2022-2027, assistive devices and accessibility technologies represent any article, equipment, software application, or product that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities. Although they also include some medical devices, assistive and accessibility technologies are a distinct category, with predominantly functional and social, not exclusively medical, purposes.

Assistive technologies are products, equipment, devices, applications, or systems that contribute to increasing the level of autonomy, functionality, and social inclusion of persons with disabilities. They support the performance of daily activities and reduce the impact of the disability on personal, social, and professional life.

Accessibility technologies are those solutions that enable or facilitate equal access to information, space, communication, education, work, and other essential areas of life

Contents

Furniture, Fixtures, and Other Assistive Products for Supporting Activities in Indoor and Outdoor Built Environments

Lighting fixtures

Handrail supports and grab bars

Devices for opening/closing doors, window hardware, and curtains

Construction elements in homes and other spaces

Safety equipment for homes and other spaces

Storage furniture

Assistive Products for Communication and Information Management

Assistive products for vision

Assistive products for hearing

Assistive products for voice and speech functions

Assistive products for reading, writing, and drawing

Assistive products for calculation and basic arithmetic training

Assistive products for recording, playback, and display of audio and visual information

Accessories for audio, video, and visual systems

Assistive products for remote communication

Assistive products for time, memory, and planning management

Assistive products for signaling, alarming, and localization

Assistive products for learning foreign languages.

Output devices

Assistive products for orientation

Furniture, Fixtures, and Other Assistive Products for Supporting Activities in Indoor and Outdoor Built Environments

Furniture and other products that can be placed, incorporated, or otherwise added to a built environment to facilitate movement and positioning, including access and exit, in areas built for public and private use. This includes products for sitting, standing, and lying down.

Lighting fixtures

Assistive products for sensory stimulation with light

Disability type:

• Visual (e.g., people with visual impairment who need directed, contrasting, or adjustable lighting)
• Mental/psychological (e.g., autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, anxiety – where lights can have a calming or stimulating role)
• Associated
• Deafblindness (in combination with vibrations or other multisensory stimuli)
• Rare diseases (involving sensory or sensory processing disorders)

Domain: vision, cognition, communication (depending on use)

General lighting: Lighting fixtures that illuminate an area directly or indirectly, without focusing on specific points.

Reading lamps and work lamps: Lighting fixtures intended to illuminate a specific area to facilitate a particular activity.

Podium and whiteboard lamps

Handrail supports and grab bars

Disability type:

• Physical (e.g., people with reduced mobility, muscle weakness, balance disorders, arthritis, paralysis, spasticity)
• Mental/psychological (e.g., people with cognitive or orientation disorders – where physical support offers additional safety)
• Visual (for tactile orientation and stability in movement)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (with neuromotor or coordination impairment)
• Deafblindness (for tactile guidance in space)

Domain: mobility

Handrails and support rails: Usually cylindrical barriers mounted on a wall, floor, or other stable structure, that allow a person to support or stabilize themselves using their hands or arms while walking, for example, on stairs or ramps or moving through corridors.

Fixed grab bars and handles: Devices, usually straight or angled bars, that are permanently mounted on a wall, on a wall and floor, or on a wall, ceiling, and floor to provide support for a person while standing or changing position.

Removable grab bars and handles: Devices, usually straight or angled bars, that can be temporarily mounted on walls, floors, ceilings, or furniture using, for example, clamps or suction cups, and removed without tools, providing support for a person while changing position.

Hinged handrails and arm supports: Devices that provide support for a person when changing position; they can be fixed to a wall or floor and can be folded or lowered sideways or downwards to allow access or when not needed.

Devices for opening/closing doors, window hardware, and curtains

Disability type:

• Physical (e.g., people with reduced muscle strength, limited upper limb mobility, arthritis, paralysis, spasticity)
• Visual (for orientation and safe access in space, using tactile or automatic systems)
• Mental/psychological (in cases where manipulating simple mechanisms is difficult or confusing)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (e.g., neuromotor disorders, muscular dystrophies, brittle bone diseases)
• Deafblindness (if combined with tactile signaling/vibrations or adapted commands)

Domain: mobility, personal care

Door openers and closers

Window hardware openers and closers

Curtain openers and closers

Blind openers and closers

Locks: Including, for example, electric locks.

Construction elements in homes and other spaces

Features of a house’s structure that are designed to help a person function independently

Disability type:

• Physical (e.g., people with reduced mobility, wheelchair users, people with coordination or balance difficulties)
• Visual (for orientation and safety – e.g., visual contrast, lighting, tactile guidance)
• Mental/psychological (e.g., people with dementia, autism – for safe navigation, predictable environment)
• Associated
• Deafblindness (e.g., tactile guidance, multi-sensory markings)
• Rare diseases (involving motor, respiratory, or sensory limitations)

Domain: mobility, personal care, vision

Plumbing fittings and faucets: Systems in a home where liquids or gases can be controlled and distributed. This includes, for example, water and gas supply fittings like single-handle faucets, thermostatic mixing valves, flexible pipes, siphons, and electronic mixing valves.

Window hardware

Doors: Including, for example, sliding doors, swing doors, folding doors, and hinged doors.

Thresholds: Floor-level thresholds, placed at the base of doors or at the entrance to interior rooms. This includes, for example, rubber gaskets for shower doors and crossing bridges.

Floor covering materials

Stairs

Worktops

Safety equipment for homes and other spaces

Disability type:

• Physical (e.g., people with balance difficulties, low mobility, who are at risk of falls or blockages)
• Mental/psychological (e.g., dementia, autism spectrum disorders, intellectual disability – where personal safety risks are increased)
• Visual (for preventing injuries from collision, falling, or confusion in space)
• Associated
• Deafblindness (requires equipment with tactile signaling or vibrations)
• Rare diseases (especially when they involve a sudden loss of balance, seizures, etc.)

Domain: mobility, cognition, personal care, vision

Anti-slip materials for floors and stairs: Materials for surfaces that minimize the danger of slipping⁶⁵. This includes, for example, non-slip mats and non-slip tiles.

Safety carpets for accident prevention: Soft or shock-absorbing carpets to limit the risk of injury in case of a fall, for example, from a bed.

Safety barriers, fences, and gates for hardware, stairs, and elevators

Safety valves for gas supply: Devices that automatically stop the gas flow to prevent accidents.

Assistive products for the indoor environment for preventing accidental burns and fires

Rescue equipment: Devices for evacuating a person from a dangerous situation.

Tactile materials for floors and stairs: Tactile materials used indoors or outdoors, which serve as orientation, for example, for blind people⁷². This includes, for example, tiles, floor coverings, and mat.

Fire-resistant floor coverings

Storage furniture

Disability type:

• Physical (e.g., people who use wheelchairs, with reduced mobility, low muscle strength, or limited reach)
• Visual (if the furniture includes tactile markings, color contrast, predictable positioning)
• Mental/psychological (e.g., in cognitive disorders – simple, well-organized, accessible furniture)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (with motor, muscular, or postural limitations)
• Deafblindness (if the furniture is adapted with tactile elements and spatial guidance)

Domain: personal care, mobility, cognition

Shelves

Cabinets

Bedside tables: This includes, for example, storage devices next to the bed and combinations of bedside tables with nightstands.

Medicine cabinets

Accessories for shelves, cabinets, and bedside tables

Assistive Products for Communication and Information Management

Products intended to support, train, or replace a person’s ability to receive, send, produce, and process information in various forms, including communication through language, signs, and symbols, receiving and transmitting messages, carrying out conversations, and using communication devices and techniques. This includes, for example, devices for vision, hearing, reading, writing, telephony, signaling, and alarming, and information technology.

Assistive products for vision

This includes, for example, magnification devices.

Disability type:

• Visual
• Deafblindness
• Rare diseases (e.g., retinal dystrophies, albinism, retinopathy of prematurity)
• Associated (cases where visual impairment is combined with other types of disability)

Domain: vision

Light filters (absorption filters): Devices for absorbing light with defined wavelengths and filtering unwanted ones.

Glasses and contact lenses: Devices that allow a person to focus their vision. This includes, for example, eyeglass frames and electronic glasses.

Magnifying glasses, lenses, and lens systems for magnification: Devices for magnifying the image of an object. This includes, for example, lenses with and without illumination, and magnifying glasses (loupe glasses).

Binoculars and monoculars: Devices for magnifying the image of a distant object for one or both eyes. This includes, for example, monoculars and binocular telescopes mounted on glasses.

Assistive products for extending and adjusting the visual field and viewing angle: Devices for widening or modifying the angle of the visual field. This includes, for example, prismatic glasses and glasses for a lying position.

Image magnification systems: Devices for displaying a magnified image of an object transmitted and captured by a camera for direct display on a monitor. This includes, for example, cameras, control units, monitors, and digital systems.

Screen magnification software: Software for magnifying elements of the user interface, which may include features such as color selection and focusing techniques.

Assistive products for hearing

Devices for concentrating, amplifying, modulating, and transmitting sound for a person with hearing problems. This includes, for example, hearing aids with integrated tinnitus masking function.

Disability type:

• Auditory
• Deafblindness (in combination with multisensory technologies, vibrations, or visual feedback)
• Associated (e.g., multiple disabilities with an auditory component)
• Rare diseases (e.g., genetic syndromes that include hearing loss)

Domain: hearing, communication

Ear trumpets: Devices for concentrating and directing sounds into the ear.

Hearing amplifiers: Devices placed on or near the body for amplifying ambient sound or for increasing the volume of one or more people’s voices. This includes, for example, communication amplifiers.

Hearing aids integrated into glasses: Eyeglass frames with integrated electronic devices for sound amplification.

In-ear hearing aids: Devices worn inside the ear for sound amplification. This includes, for example, in-canal hearing aids.

Behind-the-ear hearing aids: Devices worn behind the ear for sound amplification. This includes, for example, headband-type hearing aids.

Tactile hearing aids: Devices for receiving, amplifying, and converting sounds into tactile signals.

Hearing aids used in connection with implants: Devices for assisting hearing by stimulating implanted receptors, for example, in the inner ear.

Sound transmission systems for hearing aids: Devices for transmitting sound between the source and the hearing aid. This includes induction loop systems, induction loop amplifiers, radio frequency (FM) transmission systems, infrared (IR) systems, and streaming systems.

Accessories for assistive products for hearing: This includes, for example, audio connections, adaptations for glasses, remote controls for hearing aids, software, special batteries, rechargeable batteries, and battery chargers.

Assistive products for voice and speech functions

Devices to help a person communicate through speech.

Disability type:

• Physical (e.g., vocal cord impairments, tracheotomy, facial paralysis)
• Mental (e.g., language development delays)
• Psychological (e.g., selective mutism)
• Auditory (in some cases, for supplementing oral communication)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (e.g., genetic or neurological conditions that affect speech)
• Deafblindness (in combination with other augmentative communication methods)

Domain: communication, cognition (in the case of language learning or rehabilitation)

Voice generators: Devices that generate mechanical vibrations that resonate in the oral and nasal cavities and can be modulated by the tongue and lips normally, thus allowing for the production of speech.

Devices for controlling speech flow: Devices for improving speech fluency and rhythm.

Assistive products for voice and speech training: Products for training and developing the use of voice and speech, especially in terms of sound production and awareness. This includes, for example, assistive products for spoken language training, S-, F-, and Sch-indicators, and acoustic spectral analyzers.

Assistive products for reading, writing, and drawing

This includes products for handling reading and writing materials.

Disability type:

• Physical (e.g., people with reduced mobility or coordination in the upper limbs)
• Visual (e.g., people who need tactile guides, contrast, or magnified writing)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (e.g., muscular dystrophies, neurodegenerative conditions)
• Deafblindness (if they include tactile/multisensory adapted products)

Domain: communication, vision

Page turners: Devices used for turning pages from, for example, books, newspapers, and magazines.

Signature guides, stamps, and writing frames: Devices that assist a person to write a signature or hand-written characters in the desired position or to produce a printed signature using a stamp.

Reading masks and typoscopes: Devices that allow viewing a limited space of text at a time.

Text-to-speech conversion devices and software: Devices and software for reading printed or digital text with an electronic voice. This includes reading machines, reading pens, screen readers, and electronic voices.

OCR equipment and software: Scanners and software used for recognizing and converting printed text into a digital format. This includes portable scanners.

DAISY players and e-book readers: This includes, for example, software for DAISY players and e-book readers.

Manual devices for drawing and handwriting: This includes, for example, pens, pencils, brushes, drawing compasses, rulers, set squares, and their holders.

Manual equipment for Braille writing: Devices for producing raised Braille characters on paper with a special stylus or a rod.

Typewriters: This includes manual and electric typewriters and, for example, Braille typewriters.

Special paper/plastic for writing: Materials for making physical copies with special effects for tactile recognition.

Portable devices for taking notes in Braille: Portable devices for storing information using Braille.

Software for text and multimedia processing: Software for drafting, editing, organizing, and storing texts and multimedia materials. This includes, for example, software for word prediction, Braille, and DAISY.

Software for drawing and painting: Software that allows for drawing and painting activities with the help of computers.

Assistive products for reading training: Products for training and developing reading skills, for example, strategy, approach, and performance.

Assistive products for writing training: Products for training and developing writing skills¹⁶⁹. This includes, for example, assistive products for typing training.

Assistive products for Braille training

Assistive products for calculation and basic arithmetic training

Disability type:

• Mental (e.g., intellectual disability, learning disorders such as dyscalculia)
• Psychological (e.g., concentration difficulties, attention disorders, or anxiety related to calculation)
• Visual (if they include large display, high contrast, or tactile/Braille signaling)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (involving cognitive delays or processing difficulties)
• Deafblindness (if they are multisensory adapted: tactile, auditory, and visual)

Domain: cognition, communication, vision

Manual devices for calculation: This includes, for example, abacuses and slide rules¹.

Calculators: This includes calculators with, for example, voice output, large buttons, and large displays.

Software for calculation

Assistive products for learning and supporting basic arithmetic concepts: Products designed to support the acquisition of the conceptual link between the number of objects, digits, and basic arithmetic operations.

Assistive products for basic geometric skills training: Products that allow a person to learn the main characteristics of geometric shapes and to recognize, name, and compare shapes.

Assistive products for understanding the concept of money: This includes assistive products for understanding value and means of payment.

Assistive products for training in mathematics and physical sciences: Products that support a person’s education in the field of mathematics and natural sciences, such as biology, physics, and chemistry.

Assistive products for recording, playback, and display of audio and visual information

Devices that record or transmit information in audio or visual formats and products that combine any of these functions. This includes, for example, audio and video equipment, televisions, sound transmission systems, and products that process audio or visual information to improve its quality and usefulness, such as noise filtering or converting analog information to digital.

Disability type:

• Auditory
• Visual
• Deafblindness
• Mental
• Associated
• Rare diseases

Domain: communication, hearing, vision, cognition

Devices for sound recording and playback: Devices for sound recording and playback, for example, voice recorders and music players.

Devices for video image recording and playback: Devices for saving and playing back visual images and films on tape or other electronic media. This includes, for example, video cameras and projectors.

Radio receivers: This includes, for example, radio receivers with audio output.

Two-way radios: Devices for the reception and transmission of long-distance radio communication, mainly one-to-one.

Televisions: This includes, for example, digital and high-definition televisions.

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems: Closed systems for transmitting images with the help of a camera to a recorder or for direct display at a remote location.

Decoders for videotext and text television: Devices for translating videotext into artificial speech and decoding voice output to provide video subtitles. Voice recognition systems are excluded.

Microphones: This includes, for example, headset microphones.

Loudspeakers: Loudspeakers used for sound playback.

Headphones, in-ear headphones, and micro-headphones: Speakers worn on the head, placed near or inside the ear. This includes, for example, devices that amplify the volume of televisions, radios, stereo systems, or that are used in conjunction with communication amplifiers.

Accessories for audio, video, and visual systems

Assistive products for face-to-face communication

Assistive products for communication between people in the same place. This includes products used primarily for face-to-face communication, but which may also have options for remote communication.

Disability type:

• Auditory (e.g., deaf or hard-of-hearing people who use text or image devices)
• Physical (e.g., people who cannot speak due to a motor impairment – paralysis, tracheostomy, etc.)
• Mental (e.g., people with language development delay or verbal expression difficulties)
• Psychological (e.g., people with social communication disorders or severe anxiety)
• Visual (in combination with alternative methods, such as tactile communication)
• Deafblindness (with combined devices: tactile, visual, and auditory)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (e.g., neurological or genetic syndromes that affect verbal communication)

Domain: communication, cognition, hearing, vision

Letter and symbol sets and plates: Books/brochures or plates that contain letters, symbols, and words to support communication.

Dialogue units: Portable and non-portable electronic devices for alternative and augmentative communication between people in the same place. This includes, for example, electronic digital displays and recorded and synthetic speech output equipment.

Software for face-to-face communication: Software for communication between people in the same place.

Assistive products for finger spelling training: Products for learning and training in finger spelling, i.e., tactile communication for people with deafblindness.

Assistive products for sign language training: Products for learning and training in sign languages, i.e., visual languages for deaf people.

Assistive products for lip-reading training: Products for learning and training in lip-reading. This includes, for example, assistive products for training deaf or hard-of-hearing people to understand words by observing lip movements.

Assistive products for cued speech training: Products for learning and training in spoken language supported by visual signs.

Assistive products for training in the use of tactile symbols other than Braille.

Assistive products for training in the use of visual symbols for communication: This includes assistive products for training in the use of Bliss systems, pictograms, drawings, images, and other visual symbols for communication.

Assistive products for Morse communication training: Products for learning the Morse code and for training a person in its use.

Assistive products for remote communication

Assistive products for telecommunications and communication through electronic networks. This includes products used primarily for remote communication, but which may also have options for face-to-face communication.

Disability type:

• Auditory (e.g., deaf or hard-of-hearing people who use text messaging, video calls, automatic subtitling)
• Visual (e.g., people with visual impairment who use accessible screens, screen readers, or adapted contrast)
• Physical (e.g., people with limited mobility who use adapted interfaces for typing or voice control)
• Deafblindness (in combination with tactile devices or multisensory adapted technologies)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (e.g., neuromuscular diseases that affect speech or writing)

Domain: communication, hearing, vision, cognition

Multifunctional communication systems: Devices that combine voice, text, image, and video communication. This includes, for example, smartphones, teleconferencing systems, and videophones.

Telexes and faxes

Devices used primarily for voice communication: This includes, for example, landline phones with or without portable receivers, mobile phones, internet phones, touch phones, and hands-free models.

Telephone booths

Telephone exchanges: Panels and plates with switches for controlling the operation of a telephone system.

Accessories for assistive products for remote communication: This includes, for example, connection units and signal transformers for received messages, keyboards for mobile phones, assistive products for displaying numbers, receiver holders, and receiver amplifiers.

Software for remote communication: This includes, for example, software for teleconferencing, video communication systems over the internet, email applications, and instant messaging applications to facilitate the use of smartphones and tablets.

Intercoms and access phones: Standalone electronic communication systems intended to facilitate a limited or private dialogue between two or more people in different locations. This includes, for example, door access systems with integrated opening and amplifiers for access phones.

Assistive products for time, memory, and planning management

Assistive products for indicating and understanding time, for planning, for supporting memory, attention, and for structuring, for example, activities.

Disability type:

• Mental (e.g., intellectual disability, developmental disorders that affect organization and planning)
• Psychological (e.g., attention disorders, anxiety, depression with an impact on memory or activity structuring)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (e.g., rare neurological conditions involving cognitive impairment or executive disorders)
• Visual (if the products are adapted for users with visual impairment – tactile or auditory display)
• Deafblindness

Domain: cognition, vision (if it’s about adapted visual aids)

Clocks and time-measuring devices: Devices for measuring, displaying, and vocalizing time. This includes, for example, portable and non-portable devices, stopwatches, and devices with or without an alarm function.

Calendars and schedules: Devices for providing calendar information, with or without functions for displaying planned activities or sequences related to a certain time of day, for the purpose of managing time in daily life. This includes, for example, special calendar software.

Assistive products for structuring time periods, activities, and personal goals: Assistive products that support the organization of time periods, activities, or personal goals by clarifying cycles, sub-cycles, sequences, and possibly the use of time, but without being tied to a specific time.

Memory support products: Devices and software for remembering past events, for example, talking photo albums, or for supporting memory by promoting or notifying of single or multiple actions, for example, taking medication, performing a movement, or making a measurement as part of self-monitoring.

Assistive products for signaling, alarming, and localization

Assistive products for signaling, alarming, warning, localizing, and tracking a person. This includes products for marking.

Disability type:

• Auditory (e.g., hard-of-hearing people who need visual or tactile signals instead of sound ones)
• Visual (e.g., people with visual impairment who use acoustic or tactile signals for orientation)
• Mental (e.g., people with orientation difficulties or understanding risks – children, people with dementia)
• Psychological
• Physical
• Deafblindness (through multisensory alerting devices – vibration, light, sound)
• Associated
• Rare diseases

Domain: communication, hearing, vision, mobility, personal care

Signaling devices: Devices that transform a signal, for example from a phone, doorbell, or baby monitor, into a visual, acoustic, or mechanical output.

Personal emergency alarm systems: Devices activated either by the user or automatically in a personal emergency. This includes, for example, insulin alarms, fall alarms, and epileptic seizure alarms.

Environmental emergency alarm systems: This includes, for example, fire alarms, smoke detectors, and alarm systems with an internal transmitter.

Localization and tracking systems: Devices for locating or tracking a person. This includes, for example, GPS tracking devices.

Marking materials and tools: Devices for marking and identification. This includes, for example, signs, symbols, and labels.

Assistive products for learning foreign languages

Computers and terminals

Disability type:

• Physical (e.g., users with reduced mobility who use alternative keyboards, voice commands, or eye-tracking devices)
• Auditory
• Visual (e.g., touchscreens with voice feedback, screen readers, high contrast)
• Mental (e.g., applications with simplified interface, visual support for organization)
• Somatic (e.g., people with chronic illnesses who use technologies for monitoring or communication)
• Associated
• Rare diseases (e.g., conditions that involve multiple difficulties in using standard technology)
• Deafblindness (in combination with tactile technologies, Braille screens, multisensory feedback)

Domain: communication, vision, hearing

Desktop computers (non-portable/desktops)

Portable computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs): Computers that can run on batteries and can be used anywhere. This includes, for example, computers combined with mobile phones, such as smartphones.

Public information and transaction terminals: This includes, for example, ATMs, bank terminals, and ticket machines.

Operating software

Software for internet browsing: This includes, for example, software for SMS, WAP, and email.

Accessories for computers and networks: This includes, for example, external memory units, modems, adapters and cables, CD and DVD drives, and network devices.

Output devices

This includes, for example, monitors, printers, plotters, synthesizers, and output software.

Disability type:

• Physical
• Auditory
• Visual
• Mental
• Somatic
• Associated
• Rare diseases
• Deafblindness

Domain: communication, vision, hearing

Visual displays: Devices that display information visually by magnifying or improving texts and images coming from, for example, a computer. This includes, for example, large-character displays, screen magnifiers, and screens with glare reduction.

Tactile displays: Devices that display tactile information coming from, for example, a computer. This includes, for example, Braille displays and tactile graphic displays.

Printers: This includes, for example, Braille printers and plotters.

Auditory displays: Devices that display auditory information coming from, for example, a computer, through synthetic voice or other sounds. This includes, for example, voice synthesizers.

Assistive products for orientation

Devices for navigation, guidance, identification, or recognition of the surrounding environment.

Disability type:

• Visual (e.g., smart canes, audio guidance, proximity sensors)
• Deafblindness (e.g., tactile navigation devices, raised maps, GPS with vibrations)
• Auditory
• Associated
• Rare diseases

Domain: mobility, vision, hearing

Electronic orientation assistive products: Electronic guidance devices that provide information for determining relative position in a specific area.

Acoustic navigation assistive products: Guidance devices that emit a sound or message for the orientation of people with visual impairments. This includes, for example, sonic beacons.

Compasses: Guidance devices that provide information about the north, east, south, and west directions.

Tactile materials for orientation: Materials intended to provide information for orientation through touch. This includes, for example, textured surfaces.

Visual materials for orientation: Materials intended to provide information for orientation through sight.