The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Maximizing Usability: The Principles of Universal Design
Abstract
The Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University has developed a set of seven Principles of Universal Design that may be used to guide the design process, to evaluate existing or new designs, and to teach students and practitioners. This article presents preceding design guidelines and evaluation criteria, describes the process of developing the Principles, lists The Principles of Universal Design and provides examples of designs that satisfy each, and suggests future developments that would facilitate applying the Principles to assess the usability of all types of products and environments.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
No references could be resolved yet.
Research works printed but not linked: 18
- Arditi A., 1997, Color contrast and partial sight: How to design with colors that contrast effectively for people with low vision and color deficiencies
- Arditi A., 1997, Print legibility and partial sight: Guidelines for designing legible text
- 10.1682/JRRD.1990.10.0425 · DOI
- 1991, Definitions: Accessible, adaptable, and universal design
- 1995, Accessible environments: Toward universal design
- 1997, The principles of universal design
- 1996, Resource guide for accessible design of consumer electronics
- Francik E., 1996, Telephone interfaces: universal design filters
- 1990, Human factors design guidelines for the elderly and people with disabilities
- Lane J. P., 1996, Proceedings of the RESNA Conference, 146
- 10.1080/10400435.1997.10132304 · DOI
- 1995, A compilation of interface design rules and guidelines for interactive voice response systems (IVRs)
- Pirkl J. J., 1994, Transgenerational design: Products for an aging population
- 1997, Access to telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment by individuals with disabilities
- Vanderheiden G. C., 1994, Application software design guidelines: Increasing the accessibility of application software to people with disabilities and older users
- Vanderheiden G. C., 1997, Universal design vs. assistive technology. (White paper distributed at RESNA 1997 annual conference.)
- Vanderheiden G. C., 1988, Considerations in the design of computers and operating systems to increase their accessibility to persons with disabilities
- Vanderheiden G. C., 1992, Accessible design of consumer products: Guidelines for the design of consumer products to increase their accessibility to persons with disabilities or who are aging
Cited by
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education
Dolmage, J. (2017) · University of Michigan Press eBooks · doi:10.3998/mpub.9708722 · Cited by 884
Adaptive Techniques for Universal Access
Stephanidis, C. (2001) · User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction · doi:10.1023/a:1011144232235 · Cited by 124
Survey instrument for the universal design of consumer products
Beecher, V., & Paquet, V. (2005) · Applied Ergonomics · doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2004.10.014 · Cited by 75
Oswal, S. K. (2019) · Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication · doi:10.1145/3328020.3353957 · Cited by 58
DigiTaps: eyes-free number entry on touchscreens with minimal audio feedback
Azenkot, S., Bennett, C. L., & Ladner, R. E. (2013) · Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology · doi:10.1145/2501988.2502056 · Cited by 35
Metadata
- Authors
- Story, M. F.
- Venue
- Assistive Technology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1998-06-30
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 4-12
- ISSN
- 1040-0435 (ISSN-L)
- 1949-3614
- OpenAlex
- W2078925643
- Cited by
- 401
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 6.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Maximizing Usability: The Principles of Universal Design. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1080/10400435.1998.10131955
- The paper
- Story, M. F. (1998). Maximizing Usability: The Principles of Universal Design. Assistive Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.1998.10131955
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
