Crossing the street as a blind person in Slovenia

Have you seen this before? 👀
I love finding out what accessibility is like around the world!
In Ljubljana, Slovenia (which fun fact is one of the smallest European capitals with a population of 293,000 people) I got to experience some tactile + auditory features that can help blind people cross the street.
I especially enjoyed the traffic pattern diagrams as I think that’s a really cool way to support blind people’s independence.
Information like this is helpful for crossing the street safely.
What do you think of this?
Let me know in the comments! ⬇️
Transcript:
Let’s cross the street in Slovenia as a blind person!
Here’s a cool feature I’ve never seen before!
On streets with crosswalks, there’s a box with a tactile diagram that shows you the traffic pattern of the street, how many lanes it has and in which direction the cars are going.
Here I show examples of a street with two lanes of traffic as well as a street with three lanes of traffic.
On top of the box, there’s a tactile arrow that indicates which direction the crosswalk goes.
There are auditory indicators of when to wait and when to cross.
The sounds are different.
There’s also a button to request to walk across, which turns on a light.
It seems like there are a lot of features here that help blind people but I don’t know if deafblind people have enough support.
Now I’m ready to cross the street in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia!
What do you think about this?
Let me know in the comments!
Video Description: 1. Catarina is a light-skinned Latiné woman with dark brown hair wearing a sleeveless red top, a maroon bucket hat, sunglasses, and patterned black/white shorts with flowers. She’s holding her white blindness cane on a street corner. She’s smiling and is animatedly inviting the viewer to look at the box on the traffic pole. She touches it. 2. Close-up view of tactile diagram of traffic patterns in yellow, one with 3 lanes of traffic and one with 2 lanes then Catarina touches it. 3. Blue arrow on the top of the box showing the direction of the crosswalk which is visible behind it. 4. Catarina touches the button to cross and a square light turns on below. 5. Catarina crosses the street with her cane. 6. Close-up selfie of Catarina smiling and moving her head side to side. There are captions on the video in white text with a black background. Catarina’s speaking in a voiceover and the transcript’s in the caption. There is also background noise including the auditory clicks that indicate when to wait and cross.
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[@JAY1892]

I think it’s awesome how blind people are catered for in modern society. As someone who has vision, I like learning about these features that I’d never know about. 🙏🏾

[@amycox5733]

Standard here in Ireland, but I’ve never known what that pattern is for. Interesting

[@daycmetrollingdeihatin5100]

Youve never seen any feature before.

[@hdog972]

💀

[@valsk01]

BRO... CMON SHE IS TYRING HER BEST...
Just whyyyy 💀💀💀😭😭😭

[@bungerimpact]

I'm about 80% sure we have the same or very similar ones in Sweden. I'm not entirely sure if we have the cars and lanes "pattern" on the side but just visually they look pretty much the same, the beep is the same too

[@giampieragaleazzi]

nice.