Inclusive Design for a Digital World: Designing with Accessibility in Mind

© Regine M. Gilbert 2019

R. M. GilbertInclusive Design for a Digital Worldhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5016-7_10

10. Beyond the Web

Regine M. Gilbert¹ 

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New York, NY, USA

 

Inclusive Design is a methodology, born out of digital environments, that enables and draws on the full range of human diversity. Most importantly, this means including and learning from people with a range of perspectives.

—Microsoft

Reminding ourselves that we all are temporarily able-bodied is a good way to remember that you don’t want to be left out of doing the day-to-day things you might do now. If we truly want to be inclusive with the products we create, we have to look beyond ourselves and look at creating things for a wider range of people.

Looking back at past ...