Scanning Errors: QR Codes Might Encroach on Barrier Free Travel in Japan

The photograph was taken at my local train station in Kobe. The station itself is quite accessible to a person with disabilities like myself. However, there is one small problem when one enters the station, because those who enter the station, enter what I like to call an ‘empire of QR codes’.

If you want to know where and when the trains are arriving or departing at this station, the quickest – and possibly the only way of finding out – is by scanning the QR code on posters.

‘But isn’t that ok, maybe even accessible’ I hear you say? But, I find it difficult to hold my body still for a lengthy period of time because it spasms, it took me more than ten minutes to take this photo, imagine how much time it would take for me to scan a QR code.

Episode notes: https://barrierfreejapan.com/2024/01/27/scanning-errors-qr-codes-encroach-on-barrier-free-travel-in-japan/