The vision impaired experience that I did in the CUB at WSU was a great and challenging experience. I learned that having a disability is definitely not easy, especially when it has to do with your eyes. You begin to notice that designers and architect do not always have all the disabilities in mind when designing a public space. The designers and architects that designed the cub however did keep in mind the daily challenges of someone that was visually impaired, but they did not do the best that they could have. The biggest challenge for me was having to push the elevator buttons, I could not see which button I was supposed to push or even read what the button said. The next challenge was the ATM machine. The machine only has bumps on the middle key of the keypad, so I had to figure out where the rest of the keys were, and the key pad had a black cover over it for security reason, but being vision impaired it did not help at all. Overall this was a great experience that helped me figure out how to design for someone that is vision impaired.
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