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The use of visual contrast between interior surfaces helps improve the functionality of a space, facilitates safer movement, and enables different user groups to better perceive and navigate their environment. Contrast is critical for accessibility, as individuals with visual impairments rely on luminance differences to distinguish boundaries, doorways, and transitions rather than colour.
Altro offers a wall to floor solution with a wide range of products and colours that complement each other aesthetically but also allow specifiers to meet the building regulation requirements of visual contrast. To help you navigate an extensive portfolio of products we have partnered with Sophia Gravina - Founder of Spira Design and have integrated a tool designed by her into our website.
The tool allows material combinations to be tested against the regulations set out in Approved Document M (Volume II), as well as best practice guidance. It is intended to support the design of schemes that are both attractive and supportive to a full range of users.
This software, hosted on the Altro website, and provided by Spira Design, is offered for guidance and preliminary planning purposes only, and we cannot guarantee the accuracy of external data or consistency across different production batches of Altro floors and walls.
Real world visual contrast is heavily influenced by lighting design, material texture, and maintenance, which cannot be fully replicated digitally.
You are responsible for verifying all specifications against physical samples and seeking approval from a relevant Building Control Body or Access Consultant.
The providers of this tool accept no liability for any loss, damage, or compliance failure resulting from the use of, or reliance on, this data.
