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GeoDesign Studio's Application of Universal Design Principles

Principle 4: Perceptible Information

PRINCIPLE FOUR: Perceptible Information

The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user's sensory abilities.

Guidelines:

4a. Use different modes (pictorial, verbal, tactile) for redundant presentation of essential information.
4b. Provide adequate contrast between essential information and its surroundings.
4c. Maximize "legibility" of essential information.
4d. Differentiate elements in ways that can be described (i.e., make it easy to give instructions or directions).
4e. Provide compatibility with a variety of techniques or devices used by people with sensory limitations

Information from the GeoDesign Studio sign:

Pictogram of a human eye is depicted representing perceptible information.

Principle 4: Perceptible Information



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Inclusive Partnerships in GeoDesign Programming have been developed in partnership with Access to Design Professions, Institute for Human Centered Design, (IHCD) Boston, MA and funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Pictograms for the Seven Principles of Universal Design © 2001 Beth Tauke, Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.