Most people will experience a physical or mental disability during their lifetimes. So why don’t more designers of devices, appliances, and public spaces heed that reality? Why, for example, must so ...

Rachel Adler (left) and Nicole Maximowicz take measurments before designing a wheelchair tray that will protect Ana's communication device. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Marty Moss-Coane: Sara, you profile a number ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY Ben Wintner The Fast ...

A college design course that takes a critical look at the field of “making” and includes partnerships between students and people with disabilities can promote accessibility in computing, according to ...

Accessibility should not be a grudging afterthought. With planning, it can lead to elegant, beautiful, and engaging art. Alice Sheppard, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short ...

What does it look like when disabled people are viewed not as edge cases or afterthoughts in the design process, but as the default users? What happens when, instead of flattening disability into an ...

Eye-catching objects designed for, and by, people with physical and other disabilities are the focus of the current "Access+Ability" exhibition in New York. More than 70 exhibits, including colorful ...

Although not officially recognized by the U.S. government, July has been deemed Disability Pride Month to commemorate the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July just 35 years ago ...

At both tech companies and design studios, inclusive design has become shorthand for “good design,” and the “right thing to do.” The phrase is so common in tech that a quick Google search yields ...

Made To Model, an organization started by Washington University students with the goal of creating adaptive clothing for people with disabilities, hosted their first fashion show at the university's ...

Eye-catching objects designed for, and by, people with physical and other disabilities are the focus of the current “Access+Ability” exhibition in New York. More than 70 exhibits, including colorful ...