Thank you Jeannine. Say what you will about behemoth Microsoft, but I was impressed when I read about their inclusive design approach: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Design/inclusive <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Design/inclusive>
Basically, the typical design strategy is to design for, say, 80%, then comply with news of the fringe 20%. Inclusive design is to design for and from the perspective of the 20%, and somehow and quite effectively, the 80% is more than addressed, sometimes an even more elegant design solution is the result. :-) JEROME CHANG <> talk to us: (323) 330-9505 <> chat w/ us: <>http://www.BLANKSPACES.com/chat <https://lc.chat/now/7173741/> WEST: Santa Monica <> | <>1450 2nd St (@Broadway) CENTRAL: Mid-Wilshire | 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) EAST: Downtown <> | <>529 S. Broadway, Ste 4000 (@Pershing Square) > On May 16, 2017, at 7:40 AM, Jeannine van der Linden > <[email protected]> wrote: > > We do tend to think of wheelchairs when we think of the ADA, but it is of > course a much broader question. > > There are to my certain knowledge at least three members of this google group > who are disabledand for whom an absence of the ADA means in greater or lesser > degree an inability to work, go to school, socialize, eat out, and do many > other things. And in all of our coworking spaces there are certainly people > with disabilities, some of whom have chosen to keep this from us and also > people who did not join because of accessibility issues which we know nothing > about. It's a blindness, a case of "you don't knwo what you don't know". > > Approximately 20% of Americans has a disability. All of us will have at > least one between borth and death, folks who do not have one now are the > temporarily abled. Disability rights are civil rights. > > Anybody who wants to talk about accessibility issues and coworking has my > full attention and support. It's mah thing. I can be found every Tuesday at 9 > pm Amsterdam, 3 pm New York, on Twitter taking part in #AXSChat > <http://www.axschat.com/> on accessibility and a11y issues and everybody is > welcome to join us. Today we are chatting with Joe Devon, one of the > founders of Global Accessibility Awareness Day. (June 18th for the curious) > > People who work with physical structures and accessibility regularly come on; > many structural problems are easily solved shortly after there is the will to > do it. There are many ways to skin any particular cat when inclusion and > accesssibility are important. Compliance is not the same thing as inclusion > and sometimes works agoinst it of course. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
