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Designing for Accessibility & Neurodiversity: Creating Inclusive Spaces

Explore critical approaches to accessibility and neurodiversity in our movements. Learn how universal design and participatory design can enable full and equitable participation for all. Considerations for event planning and accommodating competing access needs are also discussed.

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Designing for Accessibility & Neurodiversity: Creating Inclusive Spaces

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  1. accessibility & neurodiversity in our movements • April 15, 2014

  2. critical approaches to access • social model of disability • does not operate on premises of charity or “fixing people” • works toward reinventing physical & virtual spaces • enables full & equitable participation • embraces disability-positive identities

  3. designing for the widest array of users possible↑universal design • participatory design • ↓ • a process of design by which users become co-designers

  4. universal design • Designing for all • Access from the beginning: This means access is not an afterthought or retrofit • Equitability • Flexibility • Simplicity • ** see NC State’s Center for Universal Design website

  5. universal design // equitability • providing the same means of use or access for everyone • avoiding segregation

  6. universal design // flexibility • providing choice in how people access a space or product • creating spaces in which accommodations are a natural part of those spaces

  7. universal design // simplicity • reducing complexity • being clear and consistent • designing a space that welcomes a wide range of languages and literacies

  8. participatory design • Involving people in creating accessible spaces • Access is a communal project • Cannot anticipate everyone’s needs (and also, making assumptions = bad) • Sometimes, people’s needs conflict • Embracing “nothing about us without us”

  9. { participatory access }

  10. access + event planning • When planning an event, meeting, or virtual gathering, what do you do to ensure access? • Think about before, during, and after the event: What considerations do you need to make?

  11. attending to access • Highly stimulating events—how to cope? • Valuing all the ways that people communicate and interact • Considering the built environment • Competing access needs

  12. competing access needs • What happens when one person’s access needs conflict with another’s? • Participation + flexibility • Universal design never ends

  13. spoon theory + crip time • Everyone experiences time and energy differently. • For some of us, time goes by more quickly, more slowly, or we might experience time outside fast/slow.

  14. spoons + crip time • interaction badges

  15. talk to me

  16. don’t talk to me

  17. difficulty initiating conversations

  18. summary • Consider neurodiversity & access at the beginning of planning or designing an event • Involve as many people as possible in your planning • Continually revisit the issue of access needs • Think carefully about time, presence, energy, language, literacy, communication, and sensory needs.

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