The 'Permanent' Case in Microsoft's Inclusive Design Model
Microsoft's Inclusive Design framework classifies impairment into three categories, using vision as one illustrative example.
Which of the following is the framework's example of the permanent category?
The correct answer is "A person who is blind."
The framework's permanent category, for vision, is a person who is blind — a lasting condition, contrasted with an eye injury or infection as the temporary case and bright sunlight washing out a phone screen outdoors as the situational case. Designing a solution for the permanent case usually produces a solution that also helps the temporary and situational cases.
A temporary eye infection is explicitly the framework's temporary example, not its permanent one. Bright sunlight and wearing sunglasses indoors are both situational, context-dependent scenarios rather than lasting conditions.
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