U.N. Disabled Rights Convention

[Suzined]

Today 80 nations signed the U.N. Disabled Rights Convention. After digesting it, I'll think about applications to those few malls that still frown upon Segways.

[fredkap]

http://www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml


The following is in Article 4 Paragraph f & g (it copied weird)


To undertake or promote research and development of universally designed goods, services, equipment and facilities, as defined in article 2 of the present Convention, which should require the minimum possible adaptation and the least cost to meet the specific needs of a person with disabilities, to promote their availability and use, and to promote universal design in the development of standards and guidelines;
To undertake or promote research and development of, and to promote the availability and use of new technologies, including information and communications technologies, mobility aids, devices and assistive technologies, suitable for persons with disabilities, giving priority to technologies at an affordable cost;
So does anyone on this forum know of any relatively new mobility aids that follow concepts of universal design? If DRAFT had been asked to write this, it couldn't have been done better.

-Fred

[Tarkus]

Very nice indeed.

Be Big,
Alan