Jonathan Welch reports from the recent Transport Design Forum, hosted by Altro and supported by Camira and Autoglym Connect
Accessibility is a topic which has increasing importance in society, not just transport. Companies across the board have come to realise that making their services more accessible is generally not just about being ‘politically correct’ but also often a way to tap into income streams which have previously passed them by, often quite literally.
It was interesting therefore to receive an invitation to the recent Transport Design Forum, hosted at the London offices of flooring specialist Altro in London’s trendy Clerkenwell with the support of fabric manufacturer Camira and cleaning products specialist Autoglym Connect. The event aimed to make attendees more aware of, and encourage them to think more about, how accessibility issues affect existing and potential transport users. The issue is a broad one, and it’s temptingly easy to focus on the easily visible example of wheelchair users, and to forget that there are countless other users with different accessibility needs.
Neurodiversity
It’s a word that sounds a bit like one of those buzzwords that pays lip service to a topic, the kind of thing that is mentioned in training courses, and either not understood or dismissed as too big a topic with too many conflicting needs to be able to be addressed. But what actually is neurodiversity, and why is it important?
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