0033 - Making UCD Accessible with Tina Lowe

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English - February 03, 2022 12:00 - 22 minutes - 12.7 MB
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Host(s): Geoffrey Ax and Cian Hanlon

Hi, I am Geoffrey

And I am Cian

Today we are talking with Tina Lowe, UCD Campus Accessibility Officer".

You are very welcome to the podcast Tina.

1. Can you tell us a little about yourself to begin?

2. What designs, out in the world, end up creating inequality?

3. As someone with visual impairment, is dealing with design inequality a daily experience for you?

4. How accessible is the University campus?

5. One of the principles we talk about in this class is that “universal access” is a “universal requirement” for all designs. But how can we raise awareness of accessible design, when the barriers people encounter are invisible to the majority?

6. In a recent letter to the Irish Times (Feb 12, 2022) Susan Dennehy, whose teenage daughter is a wheelchair user, concludes that “the charitable model of disability [must] be replaced by rights-based model”. Is that the solution? How can we make things better?