Universal design is the process of creating products that are accessible to people with a wide range of abilities, disabilities, and other characteristics. It is designed for all users as opposed to the typical or average user.

People of all backgrounds and abilities play games like Dungeons and Dragons, so why did the creator of a wheelchair option in the game get death threats for the inclusion?

Health and Care of People with Learning Disabilities: Standardised Mortality Ratio Indicator compares the number of deaths occurring in the learning disabilities population, aged 0–74, to those that would be expected for people of the same characteristics in the general population.

Cities are difficult to navigate at the best of times, but for people who are visually impaired, they can be like an obstacle course and a maze wrapped into one. A UK national travel survey found that adults with mobility difficulties took 39% fewer trips than those with no disability in 2017.

Some people who saw Paul and Kris Scharoun-DeForge from a distance felt pity for them. Others discouraged them from getting married. But the couple, both of whom were born with Down syndrome, believed they were the luckiest people in the world. In fact, their family believes they might have had one of the longest marriages of any couple with Down syndrome. And one of the happiest marriages of anyone — with Down syndrome or without.

From banana slicers to sock sliders to pre-peeled oranges.

Federal disability law requires movie theaters to provide specialized interpreters to patrons who are deaf and blind, an appeals court said Friday. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Cinemark, the nation’s third-largest movie chain, in a case involving a Pennsylvania man who wanted to see the 2014 movie “Gone Girl” and asked a Cinemark theater in Pittsburgh to supply a “tactile interpreter.” The theater denied his request.

We take a look at how the industry is accommodating gamers with disabilities.

It’s 2017. Why are air carriers still failing people with disabilities?

A severely disabled woman, with the mental age of a toddler, had her benefits stopped by the Department of Work and Pensions because she “missed an appointment”. Georgina Ball has aicardi syndrome, a rare brain abnormality which means she suffers from severe epileptic seizures and learning disabilities, and is unable to walk, talk, read or write. The 26-year-old claims Employment Support Allowance but this was stopped in December after her mum received a letter to say that her daughter had missed an appointment, to be medically assessed for work.

For God’s sake, if your employee needs a drink, especially if she’s diabetic, just let her have it already. That’s what Dollar General learned after a federal jury sided with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in a case against the retail giant. The story goes like this. Back in September 2014, an insulin-dependent diabetic cashier in Dollar General’s Maryville, Tenn. store told her supervisor she needed to keep juice near the cash register in case of a hypoglycemic attack.

Mozzeria makes the finest Neopolitan pizza in San Francisco. It's also entirely deaf-owned and operated. Not that hearing people would know when they call.

An estimated 10 per cent of the world’s population is, to some degree, deaf. That is 700 million individuals, ranging from those who have mild hearing loss and may or may not rely on hearing aids or lip-reading, to those who communicate using sign language and are part of a diverse Deaf culture. There are two types of deafness: conductive hearing loss occurs when sounds cannot make it to the inner ear, while sensorineural hearing loss occurs when the cells or nerves...

He wanted to tie his own shoes. Sometimes the best ideas come wrapped in the simplest of sentences like that.

From birth to 12 months.

The “Who is perfect? Come closer” awareness campaign developed by the Swiss disabilities rights group Pro Infirmis, featured disabled mannequins in five Zurich clothing store windows to draw attention to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.