How does smart automation help with building inclusive environments?

You may have heard it said that “what’s necessary for one is good for all”.

In everyday life, this looks like ramps into Main Street stores and offices. The goal may have been to create a mobility-friendly entrance for those with canes or in wheelchairs, but suddenly, both the woman in the scooter picking up her own prescriptions AND the dad who is shunting toddler twins and is desperate for diapers can easily enter the downtown pharmacy.

Think about automatic doors. They may have been designed with wheelchairs and scooters in mind, but does the following sound at all familiar? Balancing your laptop, coffee and doughnuts for the staff, a pile of Dan Sullivan and James Patterson’s latest to trade with your office admin, your personal phone, your work cell, two pounds of paperwork, and your office keys between your lips, you nudge your elbow into the metal square and voila… the door miraculously slides open just for you. I’ll bet you sighed with relief and gratitude. It may not have been designed with you and your heaps in mind, but it benefits you.

“Accessibility impacts everyone, whether or not they have a disability. Inclusive design makes the world easier, safer, and more enjoyable for all individuals — no matter their ability, age, or situation,” writes the author of Equal Accessibility.

Let’s play a very quick game of Associations. 

I’ll mention a term, and you shout out what first comes to mind. If you’re in public, feel free to whisper or say it purely in your head. Here we go.

Scenes.

Did you think of movies?  Or perhaps Broadway, with its ability to turn a plain stage into a story habitat? You could’ve also mentioned home automation or Balaklava.

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