Description:

Take a few minutes to read through the Principles of Universal Design.

Look around your house, your neighborhood or your workplace and identify at least one item that you believe could be designed to be functional for a wider range of people to improve its “universality”. Take a digital picture of it. Create a diagram or edited version of your picture showing how you would redesign it to be more universal. Put both the "before" and "after" images together in a digital file so they can be easily compared.

- Click the Submit Now button on the Dare2BDigital site.
- Give your universal design a title and in 250 words describe who might be challenged by the item in your "before" photo and explain how you redesigned it to be more universal in your "after" image. Invite the audience to comment on your redesign.
- Attach your before and after digital file by clicking the blue link File Attachments. Browse and select the file on your computer and click the Attach button.
- Click Submit at the bottom of the page to submit your entire challenge response.

 

Audience Prizes:

First -  Prince of Whales Whale Watching Tour

Second - Prince of Whales Whale Watching Tour

Third - Wiz iQ $50.00 iTunes Gift
Certificate

 

Resources:

WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health

NCSU Center for Universal Design

University of Washington Universal Design

National Research Council, Accessibility and Universal Design

Trace Centre, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of British Columbia, Accessibility in Online Learning

Special Education Technology, BC