Currently, Arlington is transitioning away from voice messaging at crosswalk signals (for example, walk sign is on to cross Glebe road) to a non-verbal signal -- such as an audible pulse (a tweet-tweet-tweet or cuckoo). Arlington County is also eliminating the vocal countdown of the time remaining to cross the street. A county employee said the changes were being made with guidance from two blind individuals.

I would like to provide the county with input from a larger group of people that are blind or have impaired vision. In doing that, it would be very helpful to have your responses to the survey questions. After collecting the responses, I will send summary statistics to everyone on this email (no individual's responses will be revealed) and provide that information to the county as well.

Survey participants must have impaired vision and live in or spend a considerable portion of their outdoor time in Arlington county. If you believe I have not reached a person I should have include, please forward this message to them. A greater number of responses strengthen the message we have.

It would be most helpful if you could provide your responses by Feb. 3rd.

(1) Which crosswalk signal do you most prefer?	Walk sign is on to cross name of street. Walk sign is on. Non verbal signal.
(2) Which audible walk signal do you least prefer?	Walk sign is on to cross name of street. Walk sign is on. Non verbal signal.
(3) How often do you find the audible walk signal too low to hear?	Never Occasionally. Frequently.
(4) How often do you find the audible walk signal too loud ?	Never Occasionally. Frequently.
(5) Do you want an audible countdown of the time remaining to cross a street?	No Yes
(6) Have you found audible countdown volumes to be	Too loud Too quiet About right.
(7) Have you found it challenging to find the appropriate push button to activate a crosswalk signal?	No Yes
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