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Inclusive playground designers must incorporate
considerations, like economic, engineering,
cultural, gender and environmental
concerns, into their design processes.
beams, can be used in a variety of
positions (sitting, standing, on the
ground or on a supporting surface).
All interactive features should be
mounted or securely attached to a
footing so that people can use these
elements to move from sitting to
standing and vice versa.
Principle 3:
Simple and Intuitive Use
Use of the design is easy to understand,
regardless of the user's experience,
knowledge, language skills
or current concentration level.
Highlights:
* Eliminate unnecessary complexity
*
Be consistent with user expectations
and intuition
* Accommodate a wide range of
literacy and language skills
* Arrange information consistent
with its importance
* Provide effective prompting and
feedback during and after task
completion
A simple, inclusive design allows
a feature's use regardless of
the user's abilities. For example,
it should be obvious for people in
wheelchairs that the transfer steps
and handrails for certain activities
are meant to support their engagement.
Concentration level is an
often-overlooked consideration.
Kids and adults may have different
levels of concentration, even within
the span of a park visit.
Principle 4:
Perceptible Information
The design communicates necessary
information effectively to the
user, regardless of ambient conditions
or the user's sensory abilities.
Highlights:
* Use different modes (pictorial,
verbal,
tactile) for
presentation of essential information
*
Provide adequate contrast between
essential information and
its surroundings
* Maximize " legibility " of essential
information
Inclusive design provides multiple
means of access while always including
a path of less or low resistance for those
who need it.
redundant
* Differentiate elements in ways
that can be described (i.e., make
it easy to give instructions or directions)
*
Provide compatibility
with
a
variety of techniques or devices
used by people with sensory limitations
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