Nicole Kear seems like any other young mom — balancing career and family, rushing from activity to activity, and working to keep her marriage strong.
But Nicole has another challenge. She’s slowly going blind.
This week, her Modern Love piece, “Together Always, In Darkness and in Light,” is read by Tony Award-winning actress Patina Miller.
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.