If you’re disabled, accessing transit can be like solving a puzzle with a lot of missing pieces
It used to take Michele Lee three hours to get to downtown Chicago from her suburban home. The trip required a mix of buses and trains, and missing one connection would throw everything out of whack.
The Digital Courseware Accessibility Problem
High-tech instructional materials are gaining popularity with instructors, but they can be problematic for students with disabilities. Colleges and publishers say there’s no easy fix.
Why Is Accessibility Still A Problem? What Can We Do About It?
How can a new public building, designed from the ground up and approved by multiple layers of authority be so ostentatiously inaccessible? Disabled people in particular were outraged, but not surprised.
From Resources / Inclusive Design 19th November 2019 The business case for inclusive design: The Big Hack study findings
Our latest study looks at how much businesses are missing out by not developing accessible websites, apps and products. It is part of our broader research into how inclusive design affects how disabled people choose to spend their money.
A Taxonomy of Inclusive Design: On Disclosure, Accessibility, and Inclusion
This series will explore concepts, practices, and organizational shifts that are central to inclusive pedagogy in higher education.
Editorial: It’s been a bumpy ride for scooters here
Scooters might be a hip fad, but they have also cluttered sidewalks and raised issues about ADA compliance.
There’s a really simple way to build websites that include everyone
Don’t follow the Domino’s model of fighting web accessibility in federal court. There are already standards in place that businesses can use.
Disabled people want disability design—not disability dongles
At first glance, a high-tech stair climbing wheelchair might seem like a cool innovation. But for Liz Jackson, it’s another example of what she refers to as “disability dongle.”
CLASSROOM DESIGN IS THE NEXT FRONTIER IN UNIVERSAL DESIGN
UDL is about understanding that every learner has inherent variability in how they learn, what motivates them to learn, and how they process and synthesize their learning.
Amazon’s Echo can now help describe grocery items to the visually impaired
Amazon.com’s virtual assistant just got more intelligent after the company revealed Monday that the visually impaired can now ask it what they are holding.