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Universal and accessible design for products, services, and processes /

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New laws, global competition, technological advances, and evolving societal values toward disability all demand the integration of universal and accessible design principles into the general practice of the design community. This growing international movement forces competitors to expand their trad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Erlandson, Robert F. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Barrier-free design.
Accessibilité aux personnes handicapées.
barrier-free design.
Barrier-free design
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The time has come
  • Design: universal design/accessible design/adaptable design
  • Disability, laws, and accessible design
  • Disability and design
  • Accessible design
  • Universal design principles, strategies, and examples
  • Hierarchical structure of universal design principles and implications for the design process
  • Ergonomically sound
  • Perceptible
  • Cognitively sound
  • Flexible
  • Error-managed (proofed)
  • Efficient (muda elimination)
  • Stable and predictable
  • Equitable: transcending, integrating
  • Universal and accessible design in the workplace
  • The world wide web : accessibility and universal design
  • Ethical considerations and conclusions
  • Ethics and universal design
  • Universal and accessible design from a social and political perspective.