Moving from Accommodation to Universal Design

摘要

While a fundamental goal of the human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) profession is to consider the abilities and limitations of people to ensure that environments and products can be used easily without error, conventional HF/E practice often ignores the abilities of those with disabilities in the design of the environment or products. This is due to such things as cost, physical design constraints and, perhaps most importantly, a lack of adequate information regarding how to consider those with disabilities in design.