Universal Design: Creating Utopia Starts with a Plan

Universal design principles can build environments that are accessible to the broadest array of users. Learn about strategies that maximize usability in physical and virtual environments. We’ll examine a variety of applications of universal design at use in the workplace, community, and classroom.

Kathy Sheppard-Jones

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