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Designing for Accessibility

Tips, tricks for Universal Design, Design for All

Everyone will experience limitations in accessibility at some point in their life.

Disabilities are barriers that occur when this is a mismatch between the interaction of a person's body with life situations.

The World Health Organization uses disability as an umbrella term to cover:

  • impairments
  • activity limitations
  • participation restrictions
Handicapped pictogram.

Disabilities

A person in a wheelchair has an obvious, visible disability.

In fact, it is the international symbol of access.

Image: Wikimedia Commons

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