Accessible products can be a real help for people with disabilities
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 30 million adults face visual challenges in Europe alone and 200 million people suffer from hearing loss.
This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2024/5
As in most areas of their lives, people with disabilities have to overcome many difficulties in shopping. They need to cope with problems such as narrow aisles in stores, high shelves, accessible parking and the lack of special toilets.
Carrefour wants to offer a more inclusive shopping experience
By summer 2024, Carrefour will improve services for people with disabilities in its 50 convenience stores in Paris and 10 hypermarkets in France, in an effort to offer a more “inclusive” shopping experience. The retailer made the announcement when it opened a new store in the northern suburbs of Paris at the end of 2023, where there is a welcome centre for people with disabilities, an assistance service and special trolleys for shoppers with reduced mobility. Innovations are aimed at addressing five different challenges disabled shoppers have to face, such as the checkout process, finding their way around the store, ease of shopping, digital accessibility, and a product range tailored to their needs.
British blind and partially sighted people can shop using NaviLens
In the frozen food category, in autumn 2022 Aunt Bessie’s was the first to introduce the NaviLens technology on the packaging of two of its best-selling items, after partnering with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) to support customers with visual impairments. The NaviLens technology uses tags that can be accessed via an app to provide low-vision shoppers with audio product information and navigation assistance. NaviLens tags can be scanned by smartphone – up to 12 times the distance of scanning a QR code, without the need for special focusing – so shoppers don’t have to search for the exact location of the code.
NaviLens tags can be scanned by smartphone
Several accessible P&G products are available in Hungary too
Procter & Gamble has been innovating for years to develop products that are accessible to all, but the company is also involved in discussions and joint actions to create equal opportunities. P&G’s company accessibility leader Sumaira Latif is visually impaired, and her pioneering work has highlighted the challenges of being visually impaired, for example in distinguishing between shampoo and conditioner, or the difficulty of putting a Pampers nappy on a baby with a hand disability. With her help tactile markings have been placed on Herbal Essences shampoo and conditioner bottles, to help visually impaired users distinguish between the products.
Herbal Essences shampoo and conditioner bottles bear tactile markings
The new packaging of Ariel laundry detergent capsules and Lenor Unstoppables fragrance boosters – already available in Hungarian stores – feature the NaviLens technology.
Capsules in the Ariel EcoClic carton box are designed with easy opening for people with reduced mobility.
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Capsules in the Ariel EcoClic carton box are designed with easy opening for people with reduced mobility
Gillette Treo razors are also a ground-breaking innovation, allowing people with reduced hand movement to shave easily and safely. //
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