A design guide for the use of colour and contrast to improve the built environment for visually impaired people in an approach to meeting Part M of the Building Regulations, key DDA guidance documents and BS8300 allows specifiers to address the visual contrast elements of adjacent critical surfaces such as...

With a carefully structured methodology covering issues from: Why access matters, Conservation principles and the statutory framework, what is 'Reasonable' & Barriers to access, Making access a reality, to Practical advice and examples, this publication and its sister volume Easy Access to Historic Landscapes takes the reader through a usefully...

The aim of this guide is to help property owners and managers provide easier access for all their visitors, whatever their age or level of ability. It will also be of value to designers, planners, and others working to open up historic sites to a wider audience

An excellent, comprehensive resource for both users and planners/ designers/ providers, this website is backed up by systematic ongoing participative research programmes- "To ensure that the recommendations we provide are accurate, relevant and robust, EFDS aim to be the leading centre for commissioning specialist market knowledge and evidence-led insight for...

Advice based upon a programme of ergonomic research undertaken to provide a definition of the requirements of a taxi designed to be fully accessible

Helpful access guide that tells disabled customers what to expect at a Scandic hotel

A guide intended to engage cities to stimulate into action so as to become more age friendly and thus tap the potential that older people represent to humanity.

Includes information on nationally agreed accessibility standards , guidelines on information, transport, interpretation, events management and least restrictive access guidelines. As well as guidelines on carrying out access audits and surveys

Free upload with helpful introduction. The architects plan of work is most commonly used as a means of managing input into the process of design and construction. This overlay is a tool for architects and construction managers to engage with clients in discussions around a broad range of sustainability issues...

Key reference on the correct use and layout of tactile paving in the external built environment

This website sets out the ongoing and substantial research program of the HHC. It describes the nature of the inclusive design challenge and unpacks the different areas by which its pioneering work on Inclusive Design is progressing. It contains reference to the research and inclusive design archive including a host...

The go-to guide for this subject. Besides a comprehensive coverage of the legislative background to these issues, this excellent publication focuses innovatively on the inclusive consultation on "Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans (PEEPs)" for a wide range of abilities/ disabilities. It considers societal roles and peoples occupations as well as the...

Technical guidance showing how to ensure housing and the public and communal areas need to be designed to be accessible to blind and visually impaired people

This well researched and convincingly presented thesis deals with changing the way we plan and develop our towns and cities to meet the needs of an ageing population. It draws on a range of research undertaken through URBED. It is intended as a manifesto for groups wanting to build somewhere...

Website page with connections to the full archive of a research project at University of Salford ‘SURFACE’ Inclusive Design Research Centre, IDGO (Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors) explored if, and in what way, the ability to get out and about impacts on older people’s quality of life and what barriers...

A guide intended for those involved in planning policies and future site improvements to show how to bring about high quality improvements to the walking environment

Briefing which looks at a broad meaning of inclusion - not just access - starting with what an inhospitable environment feels like the unintended social, cultural and economic inequalities that follow

This website resource discusses the definitions and reasons for implementing universal/ inclusive design, then provides an inspiring catalogue of project case studies developed by its 'collaborators' in a variety of design challenges in areas as diverse as information, product design, environmental design, packaging and furniture etc.

Provides guidance on the principles of inclusive design that were adopted for the delivery of the London Olympics 2012

Shows how the ODA intended to meet its inclusive design objectives, its approach and the tools it adopted for the London Olympics

An online resource that covers topics such as 'What is inclusive design?', 'Why do inclusive design', 'How do I get started' to 'Inclusive design tools' and' User capabilities'. Each section has case studies and downloads to support inclusive design and consultation processes and specific functions. Regularly updated....

Design guidance and principles that make streets easy, enjoyable and inclusive as people grow older (including people with dementia) in their neighbourhoods allowing them to continue to live at home

pdf available for CHF 158 The purpose of this International Standard is to create requirements for tactile walking surface indicators (TWSIs) for blind or vision-impaired persons. It provides product specifications for TWSIs and recommendations for their installation in order to assist in the safe and independent mobility of blind or...

This guide is to help anyone involved in a public space project for the first time. It gives examples of great outdoor spaces led by community groups and highlights
lessons from their experiences