[CEUD-ICT] Accidental Accessible solutions

[Eamon Mag Uidhir]

The proverbial lever door-handle replacing the hard-to-grip round  
door-handle in the period since the second world war may be the  
greatest-ever implementation of accessibility and usability by  
stealth. It's a very useful example when you're giving accessibility  
awareness training to people who haven't thought about the subject  
before.

A more recent achievement has been the arrival of the current  
generation of milk carton closures from Avonmore and Premier. When I  
was without the use of one arm due to injury last year I thought I was  
going to be snookered whenever I wanted to open a new milk carton, but  
lo and behold the spiral movement that twists off the closure tab is  
perfectly doable with just one hand. I doubt that efficient one-handed  
use was uppermost in the minds of the product design team that created  
the closure, but that's what came out.

Eamon





    Éamon Mag Uidhir
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RESPONDING TO Laurence Veale <laurence.veale at iqcontent.com>:



> Hi Cearbhall,
>
> there are a few examples up on:
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> http://www.universaldesign.ie/exploreampdiscover/definitionandoverview/examples
>
> Lar
>
> Laurence Veale
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Cearbhall O Meadhra <
> cearbhall.omeadhra at idd.ie> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>>
>> Would you know of any design solution such as a building, product or
>> service that was designed for a particular market other than that of
>> disability but yet included all aspects of usability so that the result was
>> comfortably usable by any person with a disability?
>>
>>  I am researching use cases of examples where wise designers have realised
>> that sustainability requires preparation for the future by building in
>> accessibility requirements even though the client does not demand such
>> compliance.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing from you. My contact information is shown below.
>>
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Cearbhall E. O'Meadhra
>>
>> "Good design enables - Bad design disables"
>>
>> Tel: +353 1-2864623 Mob: +353 83 3323487 Em: omeadhrac at ncad.ie
>>
>>
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