"Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities."
Designing physical and digital spaces to be inclusive and accessible for people with disabilities.
Disability Rights and Advocacy: Understanding the history of disability rights, laws, and policies that affect people with disabilities, and the importance of disability advocacy.
Assistive Technology: Types of assistive technology devices, software, and applications that can help people with disabilities perform everyday tasks more easily, and best practices for designing accessible technology.
Universal Design: Principles and practices for creating environments, products, and services that are usable by people with a wide range of abilities and disabilities.
Inclusive Design: Strategies for designing and developing products, services, and experiences that are accessible and meet the needs of all users, including those with disabilities.
Web Accessibility: Techniques and tools for creating accessible web content, such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and implementing best practices for accessibility standards and web accessibility guidelines.
Physical Accessibility: Designing spaces, buildings, and infrastructure that are accessible and meet the needs of people with disabilities, including designing accessible parking, restrooms, and other facilities.
Emotional and Mental Health Accessibility: Understanding the importance of accessibility for individuals with mental and emotional disabilities, and designing services and products that provide accessibility and support for these individuals.
Gender and Sexuality in Accessibility: Understanding the unique challenges faced by individuals with gender and sexuality disabilities, and designing products, services, and environments that address these challenges.
Accessibility Testing and Evaluation: Methods and tools for testing and evaluating the accessibility of products, services, and environments, including usability testing, user testing, and compliance testing.
Interdisciplinary Design: Collaborating with disability studies, gender studies, and other designers and professionals to create more inclusive, accessible products and services for all users.
Architectural Design: This pertains to the physical design, construction, and modification of buildings or outdoor spaces to make them accessible to people with disabilities.
Graphic Design: This is the creation of visual content such as logos, flyers, books, infographics, and websites that are accessible through the use of inclusive visual design principles, appropriate color contrast and use of fonts that cater to visual impairments.
Web Design: This pertains to creating websites that use inclusive design principles to accommodate people with disabilities, such as using assistive technology for audio, text, and video content that can be accessed by those who may have vision and hearing challenges.
Product Design: This pertains to the design and creation of physical products like assistive technology, hearing aids or sensory motor aids that are tailored to cater to people with disabilities.
UX and UI Design: This pertains to the design and creation of digital interfaces, software, and mobile apps that adhere to ADA accessibility criteria (Americans with Disabilities Act) and offer an easy and accessible user experience to accommodate people with disabilities.
Multimodal Design: This pertains to the design of interfaces that cater to different modes of communication in people with disabilities, such as braille, vibrations, audio cues and visuals.
Infographics and Data Visualizations: Infographics and data visualizations are an accessible way of representing complex data or information. Graphics that have descriptive text, visible text, and audio settings accompanying them are preferred to provide accessibility with the visually impaired.
Communication Design: This pertains to the design and creation of print and audio material that includes captions, audio descriptions, or large text to accommodate people with disabilities.
Inclusive Fashion Design: Inclusive fashion pertains to creating clothing, accessories, and footwear that cater to people with physical disabilities, who need greater mobility and support, ease and comfort of use.
Universal Design: This concept pertains to the creation of products or environments that are accessible to everyone, irrespective of their physical, cognitive, and sensory ability.
"The concept of accessible design and practice of accessible development ensures both 'direct access' (i.e. unassisted) and 'indirect access,' meaning compatibility with a person's assistive technology."
"The concept focuses on enabling access for people with disabilities, or enabling access through the use of assistive technology."
"Research and development in accessibility brings benefits to everyone."
"Therefore, an accessible society should eliminate the digital divide or knowledge divide."
"Accessibility is not to be confused with usability, which is the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals."
"Universal design is the process of creating products that are usable by the widest possible range of people, operating within the widest possible range of situations."
"Universal design typically provides a single general solution that can accommodate people with disabilities as well as the rest of the population. By contrast, accessible design is focused on ensuring that there are no barriers to accessibility for all people, including those with disabilities."
"The active involvement of physically disabled individuals in the design and development of Metaverse platforms is crucial for promoting inclusivity."