Google Hangouts allows users to video chat with friends, conduct meetings with colleges and broadcast recorded sessions online. With the launch of the new sign language interpreter app, Google Hangouts now also allows users to assign one of the Hangout participants the role of sign language interpreter. Live video of the sign language interpreter will be displayed in the top right of the screen throughout the Hangout session.
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.
