The Access City Award is the European prize for making cities more accessible to people with disabilities and older people. Wiesbaden (Germany) has set ambitious objectives to ensure that its citizens have unrestricted access to the city centre and its open spaces, parks and playgrounds. The city has also designed a special pedestrian guidance system for visually impaired people, it has introduced a bronze tactile model of the city’s medieval centre and it has created tactile city maps for the blind and visually impaired in public locations. Over 200 of the city’s public buildings are fully accessible and they are designated with stickers bearing the slogan “Wir machen mit” – We’re joining in – at the entrance to each building. Video script (pdf - 178,25 KB)

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