Document summary
This document is a guide to best practice on the use of tactile paving surfaces. The use of tactile paving surfaces is important because these surfaces convey vital information to vision impaired and other people about their environment, including hazard warning and directional guidance, thereby supporting independent mobility. When moving around the public realm, vision impaired people will actively seek, and make use of, tactile information underfoot, in particular detectable contrasts in surface texture. It is therefore important that tactile paving is used correctly and consistently, so that conflicting and confusing information is not conveyed.
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