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Universal Design Initiatives
KYOCERA Document Solutions' universal design initiatives are based on the idea that engineers and designers who develop products should fully understand the difficulties and problems that elderly or disabled people might experience when using our products. Currently, all KYOCERA Document Solutions products are designed with universal design principles in mind.
To identify the difficulties and problems that elderly and disabled people might experience with our products, KYOCERA Document Solutions' engineers and designers visit workplaces where people with disabilities are working to observe their actual working conditions, and also use wheelchairs and simulated elderly experience kits to experience and assess the difficulties that elderly and disabled users face. It is ensured that information obtained from field observation and assessment results is incorporated into development processes.
Especially since Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act was put into force in June 2001, interest in "accessibility" and "universal design" has been heightened among the development community, resulting in numerous new ideas and concepts.
For example, the TASKalfa 5550ci series of color multifunctional products (MFPs), launched in April 2011, and the TASKalfa 5500i series, launched in May 2011, embody all of KYOCERA Document Solutions' universal design efforts. The universal design features adopted by these series include the "color wide touch panel" which can be titled, a "universal mode display screen" with large letters, so that weak-sighted persons can easily see the indications, and the "universal grip" which makes the cassette easier to pull out in either straight or reverse grip.
Evaluation of operability for disabled users, using a wheelchair
Evaluation of operability for elderly users, using a simulated elderly experience kit
Universal Design Features Incorporated in the TASKalfa Series
Original document output tray with high visibility, from which it is easy to remove original documents
Automatic document feeder whose aperture angle can be controlled to the desired position, while sitting in a wheelchair
Operating panel whose tilt angle is adjustable to two levels
Output tray with high visibility, from which it is easy to remove printed copies
Paper feeding cassette equipped with a grip-type handle that can be pulled out in either straight or reverse grip
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