APS Online Workshop: Overview

Module A

Module B1

Module B2

Module C

• Slides 1-10
• Slides 11-20
• Slide 11
• Slide 12
• Slide 13
• Slide 14
• Slide 15
• Slide 16
• Slide 17
• Slide 18
• Slide 19
• Slide 20
• Slides 21-30

Module D

Module E

Module E: Exercises

Module F

Module G

Module C - Slide 15

Click below to play a locator tone followed by a speech walk indication. You’ll hear the pushbutton locator tone (during steady don’t walk and flashing don’t walk), then the speech walk indication (during WALK).

There is a specific message format, “[street name] walk sign is on to cross [street name]” that should be used. If a speech walk message is used, it must be accompanied by a tactile arrow, and a pushbutton information message.

Pushbutton information message is explained later, as additional feature, with an example.

Any of the pushbutton locator tones could be used here; this one happens to be a beep, but it could be a click. Remember, what is standardized is the short length of the tone and the once per second repetition rate.

This type of WALK has been used for years in Europe and Scandinavian countries; the same sound is used for all directions and they locate the pushbuttons and APS right beside the crosswalk departure location. The locator tone is constant and adjusts in response to ambient sound but it is NOT supposed to be loud (just audible at the corner, not halfway down the block or across the street).