Gary Renick | March 13, 2009
Principle Five Tolerance for Error Ideally, the building’s design should eliminate, isolate or shield any design features that could prove hazardous or inconvenient to any user. When potentially dangerous conditions are unavoidable, users should receive warnings as they approach the design feature (e.g., providing proximity warnings in a variety of sensory modes near the top [...]
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Gary Renick | March 9, 2009
Continuing with my discussion on Universal design we move on to the fourth principle perceptible information. Principle Four consist of the following information. Principle Four Perceptible Information The building should provide all essential information in a variety of modes (e.g., written, symbolic, tactile, verbal) to ensure effective communication with all users regardless of their sensory [...]
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Gary Renick | March 9, 2009
First let me apologize for not getting back to this subject sooner. I want to continue our discussion on
Universal Design with principle three of seven. Principle three is stated as follows.
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Gary Renick | January 23, 2009
What is Universal Design It
is a set of design criteria
developed to allow for
people to age in place.
Now this means that as we
get older and less able to
do the things we used to
do,
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Gary Renick | January 23, 2009
What do you mean Visitable
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