Disability – An Upside for Everyone in Unifying Smart City Design

Disability: An Upside for Everyone in Unifying Smart City Design

How designing with accessibility and disability inclusion from day one benefits everyone.

Disabilities have a lot in common with the many of the technology markets I have analyzed for the last 20 years: each was developed and considered in isolation, solutions were specific to each area, and the cost was excessive. Nothing united the disability segments just like nothing united the different streams of technology. Until now….

 

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