Davos 2019: Cooper Hewitt museum director on the power of inclusive design
Empathetic, user-centred products that can shape a more equitable world for people with disabilities go on show at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week
Why Sign-Language Gloves Don’t Help Deaf People
Wearable technologies that claim to translate ASL overlook the intricacies of the language, as well as the needs of signers.
HOW TO DESIGN TECH SO NOBODY’S LEFT BEHIND
I’VE HAD DEAFNESS since I was little. My sister was born with congenital deafness, and my dad has some too. You’re not really in the cool gang in my family if you don’t have some hearing loss.
The accessibility and inclusion tipping point
Dylan Alcott, star wheelchair tennis player and basketballer, was a standout success at the Australian Open this year, winning hearts and minds with his brains and backhand.
Designing For Accessibility Doesn’t Drive Costs; It Drives Opportunity
In 2014, H&R Block paid $145,000 to settle a suit filed by the U.S. Justice Department that claimed the company’s website, created by HRB Digital LLC, violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2008, Target was forced to pay $6 million in damages related to its online checkout process.
Can we truly design for everyone?
In a bid to answer the above, I began research and found that to design for everyone , the design has to be accessible, usable and inclusive. This all mean different things although closely related and their goals, approaches, and guidelines overlap.
The blind woman developing tech for the good of others
An accident in a swimming pool left Chieko Asakawa blind at the age of 14. For the past three decades she’s worked to create technology – now with a big focus on artificial intelligence (AI) – to transform life for the visually impaired.
There’s already a blueprint for a more accessible internet. If only designers would learn it
The internet can be a hostile space for 15% of the world’s population who experience some form of disability.
The Longevity Economy: Why Seniors Are a Fast-Growing Emerging Market
It’s the mother of all untapped markets: the world’s 65-plus population. Already at a historical high of over 600 million people, it’s projected to hit a full billion by 2030, and 1.6 billion by 2050.
Here are the ways AI is helping to improve accessibility
Today marks the seventh Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a celebration of inclusion and digital access for people with disabilities. Microsoft took the opportunity to unveil the Xbox Adaptive Controller, a gaming controller designed to accommodate a range of special needs, and Apple announced that its Everyone Can Code curricula for the Swift programming language will come to schools with vision- and […]