Curb cuts help wheelchair users, but also parents with strollers, delivery workers, and travelers with luggage. Britne Jenke explores how designing for disability often makes things better for everyone, and asks what your workplace could change.
Now, what works for some people won't work for all of us, but what works for some could work for many. Let me tell you a story about a road and a sidewalk. Now, before the introduction of these things, curb cuts, it was near impossible for someone with a disability to navigate the change in height. Now, this is something that helps many people— mothers with strollers and workers with dollies. Things that help people with disabilities help us all. I also know a business owner that remodeled his entire office because it was causing someone sensory issues. What other combinations, when widely applied, could make your workplace more inclusive?
