Checked: ADA 703.5.5 · 703.5.6

Signage, checked
clause by clause.

Each sign names the clauses it was checked against and the ones it was not.

WayX is parametric wayfinding signage software. Tell it where the sign goes. It applies the clauses it checks, lays out every element by direction and hands you a print-ready file once those clauses are met. Checked as it is built, not audited afterwards.

From the office or from the corridor.

Shown in a live demo; then you get an account.

Built by Sofia Airport's Creative & Digital Experience Lead.

The film

From the check to the wall.

Forty-four seconds: a sign that fails, the rule that stops it and the file that goes to the printer.

No narration. Captions carry every line.

On site

The whole job fits in a phone.

A facility manager builds the sign, reads its verdict and sends it to the printer from the corridor where it will hang.

Build it where it will hang.
Type the destinations standing in the corridor, with the wall in front of you.
The same checks as on a desktop.
The same clauses, cited on the same rows, and the print file still waits on them.
Send it to your printer from the same screen.
The finished file goes to the print shop without opening a laptop.

Runs in the browser on any phone. No app to install.

Sablewood Medical Center is a demo brand. The signs and verdicts are real engine output.

Preview
Standards

The library

Four of the nine sign types. Each one below is checked.

  • Directional · Drawn to ADA §703.5.5 and §703.5.6

  • Poster · Drawn to ADA §703.5.5 and §703.5.6

  • ISO Safety · Drawn to ADA §703.5.5 and §703.5.6

  • Warning · Drawn to ADA §703.5.5 and §703.5.6

Sablewood Medical Center is a demo brand. The signs and verdicts are real engine output.

One sign, from a finding to the printer

1 issue · 5 pass · 1 advisoryMounting height not met
1 issue · 5 pass · 1 advisorySVG · PDF (screen)
Drawn to ADA §703.5.5 and §703.5.6 · 6 pass · 1 advisoryADA §703, in part
Drawn to ADA §703.5.5 and §703.5.6 · 6 pass · 1 advisorySVG · PDF (screen) · PDF for print · Send to printer

Captured from engine 0.3.0.

The idea behind WayX

Speed and the standard should never be a trade-off.

Every design tool makes you choose. Move fast and risk the standard, or slow down to get it right. WayX is built to refuse that choice. The layout is automatic, and the clauses it enforces are checked as you type, once the viewing distance and the mounting height are declared. Fail one and the print file is withheld. The rules decide, and the verdict names the clauses they cover.

In seconds

Type the destinations and the layout appears, grouped by direction. No blank canvas, no starting from zero.

Checked, clause by clause

Where the ADA binds, every layout is measured against ADA 703.5.5 and 703.5.6 once the viewing distance and the mounting height are declared; until then the row says the clause was not checked. It does not check §703.5.1, 703.5.2, 703.5.3, 703.5.4, 703.5.7, 703.5.8 and 703.5.9, and the verdict says so. Where a clause it checks is not met, the print file is withheld.

Ready to send

Approve, and it ships straight to your print shop. From idea to production without leaving WayX.

2
ADA §703.5 clauses checked: 703.5.5 and 703.5.6
7
Clauses of §703.5 it does not check, named in the verdict
ADA
Federal. Applies in every US state
0
Print files released for a sign that fails a clause it checks

How it works

Three steps to a sign you can send

01

Tell it where

Name the destinations, the directions and where the sign is installed.

02

It checks what it can cite

Where the ADA binds, every element is measured against ADA 703.5.5 and 703.5.6 once the viewing distance and the mounting height are declared; until then the row says the clause was not checked. Each clause is met or not on its own terms, and the verdict names the clauses of §703.5 that were not checked.

03

Send it to print

Export SVG or PDF at exact size, ready for the print shop. No Illustrator needed.

See a sample (PDF, 1.1 MB)

A real WayX output for a US room sign, 214 Conference, drawn to ADA §703.2 and §703.3: the artwork, the braille proof, and a sheet of what WayX does not claim and leaves to the fabricator and the installer.

Build a sign that's right the first time.

No design team, and no guessing which clause you missed. The checks run as you type, and they are named.

Book a demo →

The full picture is in a demo, a one-pager or a pilot. To ask for one, write to gancho@wayx.app.