Gary Renick | April 29, 2009
For most of my early adult life I lived in apartments. Every one of these apartments claimed to be handicap accessible. They all proudly displayed the wheelchair symbol on their ads and signs. However when asked what made the apartment accessible the answer was pretty much the same. They would tell you it was near [...]
Gary Renick | April 23, 2009
Why is it so hard to create a building code that is inclusive of accessible design? There have been efforts to do this for years. How hard would it be to just add the features or change the way something is done? Why must we have to two standards for our homes? Have you ever [...]
Gary Renick | April 1, 2009
When I started this blog almost a year ago I envisioned a site where you would come and post your questions about accessibility and I would answer them for you. I was a newbie and in a lot of ways I still am. I have learned that you have been asking me questions all along, [...]
Gary Renick | March 31, 2009
Today we will conclude our discussion of Universal Design Principals with the seventh and final principal. The seventh principal states:
Principle 7
Size and Space for Approach and Use
A building’s design features should provide an adequate amount of space that is appropriately arranged to enable anyone to use them (e.g., providing knee space under a washroom lavatory [...]
Gary Renick | March 17, 2009
Today we continue with
our discussion of Universal
Design with Principle Six
Low Physical Effort. What
are we talking about when
we say low physical effort,
doing what? Principal Six
reads as follows: Principal
Six Low Physical Effort
My passion and my mission is to help the disabled of the world remove the barriers that keep them from the freedom of mobility that they are entitled to.
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