I believe it’s called Universal Design. You can hear about that and curb cuts specifically in eps 308 of the 99% invisible podcast.
Is there a word for the phenomena where everyone benefits from design decisions made to help vulnerable populations?
Submitted 10 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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piecar@lemm.ee 10 months ago
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A great episode of an excellent show.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
One of my coworkers was talking about how his wife (a truly hateful woman) was complaining about having been to a particular airport, and how they had changed them for trans people (she presumed). In particular, they had made all the stalls have floor-to-ceiling doors for privacy. I responded “wait… she’s mad because they made the bathrooms better for everyone, because they did it for trans people? That is an objectively better bathroom situation. I can’t imagine being upset by that.”
People can still manage to be upset, but if they did do that for trans people (and I’m honestly not convinced), that’s fantastic, and is a perfect example of what you’re talking about, I think.
aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Probably did it to stop Republican congressmen from trolling for gay sex a la en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal
Smeagol666@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Maybe she’s a closeted homosexual with a poo poo fetish. I’d ask the cunt outright if she was just to shut her up. It’s always the ones who are militant about their homophobia that turn out to be closet cases.
Deestan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In addition to a word for it, which I see you’ve gotten answers to, this comic is popular to illustrate the effect: https://removed/JFbTZx1/1688c831dd3c78d781dbad4626a26c2a-2842075849.jpg
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Not to mention the ramp is easier to clean off and less dangerous once you clear and sand/salt it.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
“A rising tide lifts all ships”
viking@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Collateral remedy sounds nice :-)
Donebrach@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Socialism
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
“The curb effect” for the little Ramos people made on curbs for wheel chairs, that turned out to be useful for delivery people, baby carriages, bicyckes, etc
BrerChicken@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In the disability advocacy community, we like to say that accessibility is for everyone!
db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
!Capitalism
But also !Communism so you .ml folks don’t start creaming just yet.
otp@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I wonder if you’re aware of the irony in your comment… in a discussion about making things accessible for everyone, you’re using a symbol that only a subset of people would understand the meaning of, haha
db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Everyone can though, including the blind. It is very much accessible, whether everyone knows it at once isn’t relevant to that.
DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Are you using the exclamation point to mean “not”?
Or are you trying to link to a community like !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world?db2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You got it the first time, it’s “not”.
Acamon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Trying to use “!” as a NOT doesn’t really work on Lemmy because it is superceded by the local usage of “!” as Community.
dingus182@endlesstalk.org 10 months ago
Since my use of Linux, I still read it as Bang.
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 10 months ago
Here you go: ¬
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I tend to think of it as positive synergy but you’re right, it does need a more defined/known term.
Smeagol666@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Affordance? I’ve heard of it when talking about tools or utensils that are universally usable.
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut_effect
This might be it :)
valen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
When closed captioning for TVs was being rolled out by government mandate in the US, there was widespread anger over having the cost of a TV increase by $0.25 for everyone for a feature that would only help a few. I was sickened by the callousness.
Tolstoshev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Plus people rarely know in advance that they might become disabled later in life, so they are shooting themselves in the foot by protesting when they are lucky enough to be able bodied.
otp@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Hey, that’s about $2 today!
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Huh, I’ve not read of that before! That definitely fits with what I was thinking, and points to other terms that may apply as well (universal/inclusive design). Thanks!
PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nice. Today I learned a new term.