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The curb cut is not even that good, the new hotness are elevated crosswalks. Smooth paving also makes a big diffeerence. My wife is on a wheelchair and it's hard to overstate how much these little things improve her life.

> We all benefit from digital (and physical) accessibility

Interestingly though, in this space, wheelchair accessible sidewalks often conflict with tactile paving (for blind people). Those tactile bumps are often inside the curbs, so there's often no way for a wheelchair to avoid them.






> the new hotness are elevated crosswalks.

Those are great for making cars not blast through intersections too.


And making sure puddles don't form in the crosswalk



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