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What is Universal Design or Design-For-All

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
A general framework catering for conscious and systematic efforts to proactively apply principles, methods, and tools to develop documents that are accessible and usable by more people, including the youngest, the elderly and people with different types of disabilities, in more situations or context of use, thus avoiding the need for a posteriori adaptations, or specialized design.
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Accessibility of Documents
Georgios Kouroupetroglou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch437
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