Alex Haagaard

How can we design accessible systems, services, spaces and products? Who gets left out by typical approaches to accessibility and why? This session discusses the history of "barrier-free" and accessible design, examines why chronic illness and neurodivergence have never been meaningfully included within those movements or the legislation and compliance frameworks that emerged from them, and suggests actionable approaches to create design outcomes that are as usable as possible for as many people as possible.