Columbus, Ohio Launches Accessibility Guide

Experience Columbus, the vacation spot advertising group for Columbus, Ohio launched its new Accessibility Guide to assist promote the vacation spot as an inclusive and accessible vacation spot, showcasing accessible motels, eating places, sights and transportation across the metropolis to assist inform its vacationers.

The accessibility information gives particular guides for a wide range of totally different accessibility wants, together with mobility, imaginative and prescient, listening to and cognition. Over twenty sights, motels, eating places and transportation choices have been verified by incapacity inclusion specialists.

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Expertise Columbus consulted with internationally identified incapacity inclusion skilled and common design advisor, Rosemarie Rossetti, Ph.D., who mentioned, “What makes Columbus such an inspiring and progressive metropolis is the abundance of locations and occasions that may be skilled and shared by all.”

“As an individual who makes use of a guide wheelchair, I’ve loved the chance to share my perspective on how this metropolis could be loved by folks of all skills. I hope this information affords many others the possibility to reap the benefits of what Columbus has to supply,” Rossetti continued.

Moreover, the brand new information contains ideas for planning accessible conferences. The information will embrace increasingly companies and organizations as they supply their accessibility data with the vacation spot advertising group.

One such attraction that has stepped up as an accessible and inclusive place for all friends is COSI, the Middle of Science and Business, which affords a wide range of accessibility data. Youngsters and adults with sensory wants can get pleasure from free sensory luggage, with noise-canceling headphones, visible schedules and a wide range of coping objects. COSI additionally affords a map score its areas by crowd degree.

Moreover being accessible for wheelchair customers, there’s additionally stroller, wheelchair and electrical scooter leases obtainable, in addition to household restrooms and a relaxing room for anybody needing a quiet area to calm themselves. These with listening to or imaginative and prescient impairments may also get pleasure from accessibility choices reminiscent of assisted listening gadgets, Fidelio gadgets and extra.

“We welcome guests of all skills to Columbus and wish everybody to have the ability to comfortably expertise and revel in our metropolis,” says Expertise Columbus’ Chief Advertising and Innovation Officer Sarah Townes. “Our Accessibility Information is a one-stop useful resource guests and residents can use whereas planning an upcoming go to to Columbus or in actual time whereas exploring town.”

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