You learn something new every day:
Some examples of Universal Design are the football huddle, originally created for players with hearing impairments, and foil seals on modern coffee cans, which replaced tops that were hard for people with arthritis to open with can openers.
Source:
http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=50705
As part of Disability Awareness Month, the Office of Disability Services [at the University of Tennessee] organized a competition to make students more aware of what Universal Design is and get students involved with designing objects, tools and practices for everyone. Any group of no more than four full-time undergraduate students was eligible to participate, provided they had a faculty sponsor. About 100 students entered the competition, bringing the number of projects entered to 27, Springer said.
http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=50705
Posted by rollingrains at October 27, 2006 01:29 AM