TY - JOUR
T1 - Human Factors Engineering
T2 - 65th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, HFES 2021
AU - Stonewall, Jacklin
AU - Roscoe, Rod
AU - Mont'alvão, Claudia
AU - Papautsky, Elizabeth Lerner
AU - Sanford, Jon
AU - Valdez, Rupa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - As the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee enters its fifth year, it continues to encourage the society, annual meeting attendees, and human factors professionals to improve diversity and equity within the field. At the center of this field are humans and their widely varying needs and abilities. While HFE professionals devote themselves to these needs, their details are often overlooked in order to design for what is assumed to be a majority of users. These assumptions can then lead users to be rejected by products, systems, or objects. This rejection indicates a lack of accessibility, which affects millions worldwide. In this panel, experts in the areas of universal design, healthcare, and accessible design will discuss how to “do” accessibility while demonstrating that accessibility should be considered a required component of usability.
AB - As the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee enters its fifth year, it continues to encourage the society, annual meeting attendees, and human factors professionals to improve diversity and equity within the field. At the center of this field are humans and their widely varying needs and abilities. While HFE professionals devote themselves to these needs, their details are often overlooked in order to design for what is assumed to be a majority of users. These assumptions can then lead users to be rejected by products, systems, or objects. This rejection indicates a lack of accessibility, which affects millions worldwide. In this panel, experts in the areas of universal design, healthcare, and accessible design will discuss how to “do” accessibility while demonstrating that accessibility should be considered a required component of usability.
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U2 - 10.1177/1071181321651046
DO - 10.1177/1071181321651046
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85159557828
SN - 1071-1813
VL - 65
SP - 1137
EP - 1140
JO - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
JF - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
IS - 1
Y2 - 3 October 2021 through 8 October 2021
ER -