Glass half full or half empty?

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 From the last few days, I've seen people taking care of others, I've also seen people abandoning others because of the disease, I've seen people with belief, also seen people losing hope, I've seen people wearing masks and following precautions, I've also seen people who were spitting on the road, some are suffering from the disease and some are suffering from the "Actual disease" which is lack of humanity, knowledge and kindness. Many of us have spent the last few months sitting back, subject to a rollercoaster of information that has switched between supporting our hopes and occasionally verifying our fears.  There have also been several disappointments as the dates for the virus's extinction have passed us by—  summer, rainy and winter seasons — while the infection continues to spread. We straddle a dilemma between optimism and pessimism, trust and doubt, in the way we acquire information. Optimism refers to positive future expectations, whereas pe...
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Design for equality

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What are you feeling right now? how will you feel if one day all of a sudden someone decides that a group of people are not allowed to access internet services and you are one in the group? How would it feel to be excluded?

 Design is an important tool to create function and beauty, which greatly impacts people lives "All lives" but it is also a way which can uphold a persons dignity and their human rights. Design can inflict vulnerability on a group whose needs aren't considered.~sinead burke.



There are different kinds of physical disabilities where Some elements of the physical functioning of a person, usually their agility, dexterity, or strength, are affected, meaning handicapped.

Now you might think oh, I have seen a specialised design for them. Ramps, lifts, wheelchair accessible washrooms in every public space I go to! Didn't you?
But what about the other people? did you know that the most common form of dwarfism, achondroplasia can occur to 1 in every 15000 births? and 80% are born to two average height parents. It could be anyone of you reading this.

Accessible design is for all!

What is an accessible design?

Accessibility refers to the function that amenities can be used by persons with several disabilities individually.
More than 15% of the world's population, of which more than 1 billion people are disabled, is seen in a WHO survey and this figure will double by 2050.
One of the reasons to develop closed captions or subtitles were to help people with hearing impairment but now it helps people who are in a noisy environment or who do not understand the language.

Designing for accessibility will not only help people with disabilities but also people without disabilities. What if your design inclusion for dwarf might also be useful for children.

But why do we fear to at least talk about initiating a design for a disability? If you still have no answer then I was right at the beginning, you still cannot read this!
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Varsha

Location: Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

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  1. Bhuvan PatnaikFebruary 18, 2021 at 9:59 AM

    Trying to make every person fit in to the world is one step to making it better. I loved this :)

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  2. Divya SrinivasFebruary 18, 2021 at 10:53 AM

    Wow! A new perspective to look at. "Designing for accessibility will not only help people with disabilities but also people without disabilities" never really thought about this. Thank you for this amazing blog.

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