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Rochelle Mendoca , PhD, OTR/L Roger Smith, PhD, OT, FAOTA, RESNA Fellow Noralyn Pickens, OT, PhD

Evaluating accessibility in the world around you: Assessment tools and approaches for public spaces, home residences, products, information, and educational materials. Rochelle Mendoca , PhD, OTR/L Roger Smith, PhD, OT, FAOTA, RESNA Fellow Noralyn Pickens, OT, PhD

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Rochelle Mendoca , PhD, OTR/L Roger Smith, PhD, OT, FAOTA, RESNA Fellow Noralyn Pickens, OT, PhD

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  1. Evaluating accessibility in the world around you: Assessment tools and approaches for public spaces, home residences, products, information, and educational materials Rochelle Mendoca, PhD, OTR/L Roger Smith, PhD, OT, FAOTA, RESNA Fellow Noralyn Pickens, OT, PhD Denis Anson, MS, OTR, RESNA Fellow Jaclyn Schwartz, MSOT, OTR Linda Struckmeyer, MA, OTR/L, ATP

  2. Product Assessments

  3. Approach • Addresses both the person and the product features. • Applies to individuals with various typesand severity of disability (sensory, motor and cognitive). • Addresses principles of universal design. • Who is the evaluator? • Range of tools - limited

  4. EUDPP and UDPEC • Purpose: Guides individuals who design products, as well as educators and students. Provides a procedure for evaluating how well products satisfy the Principles of Universal Design and their guidelines. • Developed: 2002 • Description: Evaluator rates the range of access or universal design features of products by answering questions such as “The product can be used by a person with hands of any size” in the EUDPP or the “The product fits my hand size” in the UDPEC.

  5. RAPUUD • Purpose: Offers a practical, cost-effective technique for evaluating product usability consistent with the tenets of universal design and traditional usability heurestics. Supports product designs and developers to identify products and product features that are problematic for those with physical, sensory, and cognitive impairments. • Developed: 2011 • Description: Evaluator rates a product on 12 questions such as “This product is easy to set up and use”. Each question is scored on a 5-point scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree and a N/A option.

  6. ADA-CAT Universal Design AUDIT • Purpose: Offers a simple, easy to score technique of rating the universal design features of a product. It provides an overall accessibility score which can be used to compare between product types. • Developed: 2008 • Description: Evaluator rates a product on 21 questions based on the 7 principles of universal design such as “The device or system allows the user to see all important elements whether standing or seated”. Each question is scored on a 3-point scale of ‘Yes’, ‘No’ or ‘Partial’ and a N/A option.

  7. MED-AUDIT (Medical Equipment Device – Accessibility and Universal Design Information Tool) • Purpose: Guides designers and accessibility consultants in evaluating the accessibility of medical devices. • Developed: In process • Description: Evaluator rates the medical devices on two scales: device task scale and device feature scale. Back ended matrices that take both sets of information to develop access scores.

  8. References • Anson, D. A. (2008). Universal Design 1.0. Retrieved from ada-cat.misericordia.edu/Do Audit/ShowAudit.php?Record_ID=2927 • Center for Universal Design (2002). Evaluating the universal design performance of products. Retrieved from http://www.ncsu.edu/www/ncsu/design/sod5/cud/pubs_p/pudperformproduct.htm. • Center for Universal Design (2002). Universal Design: Product Evaluation Countdown. Retrieved from http://www.ncsu.edu/www/ncsu/design/sod5/cud/pubs_p/pudpcountdown.htm. • Lenker, Nasrawanji, Paquet, & Feathers (2011). A tool for rapid assessment of product usability and universal design: Development and preliminary psychometric testing. Work, 39, 141-150 • Mendonca, R., & Smith, R. O. (2007). Validity analysis: MED-AUDIT (Medical Equipment Device-Accessibility and Universal Design Information Tool). Presented at the RESNA 30th International Conference on Technology and Disability: Research, Design, Practice and Policy, Phoenix, AZ.

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