• yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    Why would color blind people struggle with this sign? There are no similar looking signs which mean something different.

    The closest one would be this one:

    And any color blind person is able to distinguish those two easily.

    I see how it can be confusing for someone not used to it but for anyone who grew up in a country where this is the default it is perfectly understandable.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      Accessibility needs to be universal. There may not be other signs like that in a particular city or country, but the rest of the world uses a line through “do not” signs.

      Even a child could understand what it means, compared to different random coloured edge markings. And that’s exactly the point.

      • dreugeworst@lemmy.ml
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        48 minutes ago

        your defaultism is showing. In fact most of the world uses a white sign with red border to mean a prohibition.

        and in fact children need to be taught what traffic signs mean all over the world, they don’t magically know it