Designing for Disabled People in Home Zones

5.0 Questionnaire on General Issues and Experiences

The questionnaire is shown in full in Appendix E.

5.1 Aims of the Questionnaire

• To collect the general experiences of site test participants with specific reference to safety and navigation;
• To collect suggestions and recommendations for improvements from participants;
• To establish the views of participants on comparisons between Home Zone and traditional street environments.

5.2 Methodology

Each participant was asked to consider the questionnaire immediately after completing their respective site test.

The questionnaire was constructed to establish the views of each participant in the following areas:

• The ease with which they found the tasks of navigation and wayfinding;
• The problems they experienced navigating a route;
• Their experiences in navigation at night;
• Their personal perception of safety;
• Their personal views of comparison between the Home Zone and traditional street environment for navigation;
• Their personal views of comparison between the Home Zone and traditional street environment for safety.

Questions required standard yes/no or selected responses with some requiring open ended responses. The open ended questions were used to provide additional information to the essentially 'how many' and 'how often' responses to the standard questions.

5.3 Findings

The findings of the questionnaire on general issues and experiences in Home Zones, were analysed by individual Home Zone sites, are described in Section 7.3.

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