At Your Smokies we have been working for years to raise awareness by better understanding the needs of persons with disabilities in the Smoky Mountains.
We have educating business owners and the management of public places to special needs and applicable laws in order to make the Smokies a more enjoyable and safe environment for those traveling to or living in the Smoky Mountains.
We have posted information for persons with specials needs on Your Smokes which have been built using a web architecture that does not block access as other sites do to those who are visually impaired and plan to build additional web sites dedicated to improving access to everyone who lives in or visits the Smokies.
If you are a member of a group that has severely visually impaired hikers or are visually impaired and are an experienced hiker please be so kind as to comment to this post. If you wish for your comment to remain anonymous and to not be posted publicly please say so in your comment and we will respect your wish.
Please help us make the Great Smoky Mountains accessible to everyone who wishes to come to this wonderful place.
1 comment:
A friend who is legally blind hiked with me on several backpacking trips. She is very independent, and did fine. She was a little slower than we anticipated in the Adirondacks because of uneven footing, but otherwise there is no difference. She really hates to be thought of as different. We did not hike in the Smokies.
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