The Office of Accessibility Services collaborates across campus to apply UD design concepts in the built environment through the planning, design, and construction phases.
Seven Principles of Universal Design
- Equitable use: The design is useful and marketable to people with diverse abilities
- Flexibility in use: The design accommodates a wide range of preferences and abilities.
- Simple and intuitive use: Use of the design is easy to understand, regardless of the user’s experience, knowledge, language skills, or current concentration level.
- Perceptible information: The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user’s sensory abilities.
- Tolerance for error: The design minimizes hazards and the adverse consequences of accidental or unintended actions.
- Low physical effort: The design can be used efficiently and comfortable and with a minimum of fatigue.
- Size and space for approach and use: Appropriate size and space is provided for approach, reach, manipulation, and use regardless of user’s body size, posture, or mobility.