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Design for All AwardDesign is omnipresent in the lives of everyone. It determines how people react to their immediate environment, the clothes they wear, the tools they use, the work they can undertake, the furniture they can use, the buildings they can enter and the forms of transport they can avail of.
Deficiencies in the built environment and in product design affect everyone in different ways. Design concepts need to be developed with Design for All becoming a tool to support socially sustainable development and economic growth.
Design for all is understood in a broad sense as the design of mainstream products and services to be accessible by as broad a range of users as possible.
The approach to achieve this consists of three principal strategies:
- design of IST products services and applications, which are demonstrably suitable for most of the potential users without modifications
- design of products which are easily adaptable to different users (e.g. by incorporating adaptable or customisable user interfaces
- design of products, which have standardised interfaces, capable of being seamlessly connected by assistive devices
"Across Europe, human diversity in age, culture and ability is greater than ever. We now survive illness and injury and live with disability as never before.
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