I can get around pretty easily. People don't expect to see me walking around.
My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.
Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.
In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.
Accessible design is good design.
I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.
Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.
Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.
If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.
in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.
I try to make things that are not elitist. There's enough places in the world where we're excluded. I do not ever want to be contributing to that. I want to be contributing to opening the doors and gates for women.
Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.
I love to design for women, it's really open and very free. I always think of my friends. I think of both fictitious characters, real people from the past and the present. I am not a woman, but I find women so beautiful and so fascinating.
You're always going to be struggling if you haven't got a left foot.
The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. In my case, it's accessibility. So all of my products have to be usable, accessible, affordable.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.
I want my work to be accessible to people.
