Nap's ADA Sign Blog

ADA SIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT Since 1992, accessible signage has been a requirement in the United States under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).   ADA guidelines are intended to remove barriers and make facilities accessible to all people with disabilities.  All public facilities must take steps to comply with ADA guidelines.  ADA signs fall into two categories: Signs that must have tactile copy and braille and signs that do not need the tactile/braille but must meet design guidelines and visual copy.  When determining signage for a facility, a general rule of thumb is - if...

  Your brand is a perception in the mind of your customers, clients, employees, etc.  It is what people imagine and feel when they think of your business or organization. ADA Signage is a huge part of a company’s branding strategy and when designed the right way can help to build brand awareness.  Incorporating your logo within all your interior signage helps increase impressions and helps your audience to remember your business.   Presenting your brand consistently across all platforms can increase revenue by 23%.  (source www.smallbizgenius.net) Choosing the correct substrates for your interior ADA signs will also help reinforce your brand identity.  For example...

FONT ~ very important ADA compliant signs should be designed and produced with sans serif, uppercase fonts with a regulated character size.  Some sans serif font options include Futura Medium, Myriad Pro, Univers Medium, Helvetica (which we use) and Arial. San serif fonts are ones that are as plain and straight as possible, which increased the ease of readability. The language in the 2010 Standard for Accessible Design is very straightforward: “703.2.2 Case. Characters shall be uppercase. 703.2.3 Style. Characters shall be sans serif. Characters shall not be italic, oblique, script, highly decorative, or of other unusual forms. 703.2.4 Character Proportions. Characters shall be selected from fonts where...

CALIFORNIA ADA RESTROOM SIGNS - HISTORY While the Federal ADA regulations require only on sign to identify an open public restroom, California requires two.  Their two-sign requirement came about because the State of California adopted Restroom Sign requirements prior to the American with Disability Act in 1991. The original California Restroom ADA signs, developed in March of 1970, consisted of two geometric shapes without any tactile pictograms, text or braille.  These signs were invented and developed by Dr. Sam Genensky.  He was seeing impaired and when working in Santa Monica, he had some awkward experiences looking for the correct restroom. ...

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