Accessibility and safety for all customers and visitors should be top priorities in every store. Making sure your signage complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act is essential if you want all of your customers to feel comfortable and welcome when they shop with you.
Elevator-equipped buildings and businesses should prioritize ADA-compliant signage. Visitors with limited eyesight, and mobility, or who use wheelchairs are particularly concerned about elevators because of the extra risks they bring.
If you want your business to be accessible to all consumers, make sure that the elevator signs are easy to see. Use high-contrast design elements, tactile and braille text, and recognizable symbols, making concrete sealing where wheelchair users can easily pass through.
Door Jamb Signs
Legible signage showing the floor number must be displayed on each side of the elevator door jamb on every floor. The number needs to be at least two inches tall, tactile, and have braille. Additionally, each elevator in a building with many elevators must have its distinct number displayed prominently.
All signage erected on the jambs of ground-level doors must bear the word “main” in braille and a two-inch-high star symbol.
Control Panel Signs
A numbered panel within each elevator allows users to access different floors, open and close doors, and make emergency calls. Braille text should be placed behind the button numbers on the control panels.
These days, this feature is standard on most elevator control panels; nonetheless, it is critical that your building or store meet all ADA regulations before opening.
Exterior Elevator Identification
Finding and identifying the elevator will be the responsibility of the visitors and customers. It is required by law to do ada sign installation outside each building’s elevators stating that this is the elevator in question.
There needs to be an image or icon on the sign in addition to braille and a legible typeface. Also, make sure to include the accessibility emblem if the elevator is disability accessible.
Visibility in Case of Emergency
No public elevator is complete without proper emergency signage. “In case of fire,” notices are likely to be paramount. Visual aids are also commonly used on emergency elevator signs. Someone descending the stairs with flames trailing behind them is an example of a well-used pictogram.
There will be major consequences for your company if you do not use signage that complies with ADA laws. Consequences include the possibility of hefty fines—tens of thousands of dollars—for your business.
Customer and Staff Safety
Security signs for elevators can aid both employees and clients. During times of crisis, this becomes much more apparent. Preparing for a fire or other catastrophe requires making sure that helpful signage is already up and visible.
Any building equipped with an elevator must include “In Case of Fire” signage to provide clients with alternate means of evacuation in the event of a fire. Having well-defined signs should help calm people down during a crisis when there is little time for spoken conversation.
Conclusion
Penalties and fines are bad, but the consequences for your community could be much worse. Not sticking to compliance regulations shows that there is no desire to provide accessible services to everybody. This action could make a lot of people feel mistreated and discourage them from coming back.