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Inclusive Design for Accessibility
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By Charlie Triplett
Foundations for structures must provide a robust platform for everything being built on top. Design system documentation often relies on such metaphorical concepts, and when we apply physical ideals to accessibility, we find a deeper meaning that will affect our techniques and priorities.
Any physical structure must be designed and built with an understanding of all forces that will be placed upon it – not just the aesthetics. If a structure is built in an earthquake zone, naturally, it must prioritize geotechnical stresses – but it still has to resist other natural events such as rain, snow, ice, and wind. A foundation that can resist an earthquake but erodes in a rainstorm is not a success.
Likewise, a shallow design system that considers only one assistive technology without first digging deeper to support all the surrounding and intersectional disabilities will be just as unsuccessful...
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