How Designing For Disabled People Is Giving Google An Edge

May 23, 2016 udcom

“Accessibility is a basic human right,” Eve Andersson tells me, sitting on a lawn at the Shoreline Amphitheater during this year’s Google I/0 developer conference. “It benefits everyone.”

Universal Design (UD) is an approach to design that increases the potential for developing a better quality of life for a wide range of individuals. It is a design process that enables and empowers a diverse population by improving human performance, health and wellness, and social participation (Steinfeld and Maisel, 2012). It creates products, systems, and environments to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible regardless of age, ability or situation.