Design Inclusivity and Bridging an Educational Gap for Visually Impaired Children
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2022
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AUTHOR-SUPPLIED ABSTRACT: Abstract: The creation of products for all backgrounds and abilities, which are assistive, easy, usable, and understandable by and for everyone, is called inclusive design. Inclusive design can help to create an egalitarian and accessible society because it plays a major role in enhancing accessibility, ease, the sense of oneness, and togetherness. Accessibility consists of the removal of present obstacles, whereas inclusive design consists of the creation of solutions from the beginning, which are perfectly tailored to the needs of several profiles of people: a person with reduced mobility for whom it'll be easier to use an elevator in a shopping mall or a person with a visual impairment who needs contrasted signage in a subway station for their getting around in complete autonomy, for example. Designers and companies must understand, consider, and integrate into their thought and design process all manners of persons and their abilities, by enabling inclusivity to create accessibility. Designing for everybody is what great communicators and innovators need to be able to implement to shape society into an equity-oriented society. Designers have the power to include or exclude target groups. To include target audiences that have problems with connecting to society, designers and companies have to understand the needs of their possible customers and should influence them into as many projects as possible, therefore certain elements need to be understood. Only by understanding the process behind inclusive designing is it possible to create successful projects that include every individual. Keywords: inclusive design, accessibility, egalitarian society, usability, inclusivity, target groups, designers, equity-oriented society, understanding needs, successful projects