On July 26 we will celebrate the 28th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It serves as a reminder of both where we have come from as well ...
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Nearly one in five people have a disability in the U.S., yet most playgrounds aren’t built to accommodate them. However, recently, cities have shifted away from the standard playgrounds of the past ...
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I have multiple sclerosis. Why can’t I move to be closer to my son? ...
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Inclusion means removing barriers that prevent people from participating fully in society ...
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Prompted by the gross disrespect and erasure by our nation’s new political leadership, it seems we are currently in “a new wave of activism by disabled Americans who want to change the way disability ...
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The garden aims to be welcoming and accessible for people of all abilities ...
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Starbucks announced Thursday that they will open its first American "Signing Store," in Washington D.C. this fall, which will be designed with the deaf community in mind ...
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MIT AgeLab launches In Good Company global challenge in partnership with GE, Benchmark Senior Living, and the Massachusetts Council to Address Aging ...
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There is so much more to the disabled community than just the physical aspect. Countless individuals with disabilities do not look like they are disabled, but have an invisible illness ...
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By understanding the range of abilities and capabilities of the people who use our apps, you can design robust apps that work for everyone ...
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A film screening and discussion about an argument that will become louder in the next generation, as universal design comes to shape our built environments and other aspects of our ...
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Eye-catching objects designed for, and by, people with physical and other disabilities are the focus of the current "Access+Ability" exhibition in New York ...
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Wander through a scented snowstorm, play a furry instrument in a Tactile Orchestra, investigate the sonic properties of glass, and experience many more multi-sensory experiences from some of the world’s ...
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Apple today submitted an official proposal to the Unicode Consortium, requesting a greater variety of emoji representing those with disabilities ...
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That’s why the World Wide Web Consortium, better known as W3C, created the Web Accessibility Initiative. Under this initiative are standards to make sure the internet can easily be used by as ...
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Sometimes great design is about making common objects more accessible for everyone. Designer Tatsuo Ishibashi’s Mizu Laboratory does just that, developing beautiful, useful assistive gadgets that can help ease our interactions with everyday technology ...
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A user friendly guide breaking down why certain individuals have severe sensitivities to chemicals and fragrances ...
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A smartphone app designed to help law enforcement interact with people with mental and physical disabilities is about to roll out in one of the state’s largest counties ...
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Kleege, who is blind and has been on many touch tours of museums, has long seen the potential for institutions to do more. The daughter of a painter and a ...
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Whether we are framing laws, recruiting employees or designing products, approaching these through the inclusiveness lens is a great starting point to create a more accessible world for persons with disabilities ...
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Though it was developed for users with severe motor impairment, Voice Access could revolutionize how anyone uses their phone ...
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Highlighting the beneficial ways design and technology are transforming the lives of people with different physical, cognitive and sensory abilities ...
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Ensuring the online world is accessible to everyone, including people who cannot see a screen, hear a video or hold a mouse ...
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"I have been a wheelchair user since early childhood, when I sustained a spinal cord injury in a farming accident. I am now a practicing physician in the field of ...
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Students with vision problems now have a number of tools at their disposal to help keep up in the classroom, they just need to be implemented correctly ...
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People with disabilities are often disregarded by hiring managers who bring their own personal biases into the hiring process ...
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Asserting that every piece of technology should help embellish the capability of human beings, Microsoft's India-born CEO Satya Nadella has said the technology should not "degrade" humanity but provide new ...
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A group of designers has made a virtual reality system that lets people push a real wheelchair through a virtual world. This new system will give the newly-disabled may soon have ...
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Diversity and inclusive design are no doubt on the forefront, as we come together as a global economy ...
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For most young people, adolescence is a time filled with fashion and romantic concerns. For Alex Koren, his teen years were the beginning of a quest for equal access for ...
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Inclusive design, as shared by the Inclusive Design Group at the University of Cambridge, is defined as "design of mainstream products and/or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as ...
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By talking about accessibility we marginalise it to being about disability. In truth, making your digital services accessible benefits everybody ...
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The Computer Games Journal is a Springer academic journal focused on – as you might expect – computer games.  They are doing a special issue in early 2018 on the ...
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When we design an application, we want it to be so intuitive that anyone could use it. But who do we mean when we say “anyone?” ...
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Blindways is a new app developed by the Perkins School of Blind to crowdsource precise locations to help blind people find bus stops ...
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What is inclusive design? To design something to be inclusive means to make it approachable for a diverse set of users. Often, this focuses on optimization for accessibilitywithout compromising the experience ...
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Like many autistic children, Julian Brown has trouble reading emotions in people’s faces, one of the biggest challenges for people with the neurological disabilities. Now the 10-year-old boy from San ...
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Accessibility options are not a new feature for Windows, but the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update includes even more than before. This week it was confirmed that the update will ...
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Virginia Anderlini is 103 years old, and she is about to take her sixth trip into virtual reality. In real life, she is sitting on the sofa in the bay ...
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Most everyone knows that Alzheimer’s disease means memory loss. But dementia, which affects nearly 50 million people worldwide, is about more than losing your keys or forgetting your children’s names ...
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"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." ...
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By combining a wireless connected EEG headset from Emotiv and an assistive communication app, California-based Smartstones is bringing the power of speech to those who have difficulty communicating verbally. The ...
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Universal accessibility in the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector holds unparalleled promise and opportunity for people with disabilities never before seen in our history ...
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Last year, Google.org announced their Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities competition, and over1,000 nonprofits from 88 countries submitted designs for open source technology that could improve the lives of disabled people ...
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Five years ago, a college freshman named Ian Burkhart dived into a wave at a beach off the Outer Banks in North Carolina and, in a freakish accident, broke his ...
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Smart glasses for the blind and prosthetic limb makers among winners of Google Impact Challenge investment Google has revealed the winners of a campaign to use technology to help people ...
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Two University of Washington sophomores have been award a prestigious prize for a pair of gloves they invented to help the hearing and speech impaired communicate with people who don't ...
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Nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population will have a disability during their lifetime, which can make it hard for them to access and interact with technology, and limits the ...
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Most of us have been at events with a sign-language interpreter, but how many have ever seen a CART screen? CART, which stands for "communication access real time translation," provides ...
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Facebook accessibility specialist and engineer Matt King lost his vision completely in college. When he joined our accessibility team after more than 20 years in the accessibility field, one of ...
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Before the smartphone era, vision-impaired people had to use several gadgets throughout their day, such as a light-detection device. Now, these functions are taken care of by the iPhone and ...
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