Even as Universal Design gains popularity this ancedote opening Susan Fornoff's SF Chronicle article captures the tension:
Meri-K Appy can't forget the look on the face of her neighbor, a fit and athletic Baby Boomer, who reacted to the phrase "grab bars" as if someone should have bleeped out the two seemingly innocuous four-letter words.
Read Age of Denial for a look into why it is so essential to differentiate between "accessibility" and Universal Design.
(Full Disclosure: There are no grab bars in my remodeled Universal Design bathroom either!)
(Fuller Disclosure: I had an outstanding deisgner who came up with excellent solutions that unstylish accessiblity products unneccessary.)
Posted by rollingrains at April 9, 2006 08:58 PM