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BT famously brought out a big button telephone with enormous kind of inch-sized [music] press buttons, and to their absolute beusement, it was intended for people who were significantly sight impaired.
To their complete be amusement, it became for a time their bestselling phone. And of course, what they realized is it was a bedside phone in particular because anybody who wears spectacles or contact lenses is effectively blind if the phone, if they need to use the phone when they're in bed.
Similarly, disabled ramps are also valuable for people with wheeled luggage. And in a sense, someone with very heavy luggage is to some extent disabled.
If you look at door handles, for example, door handles tend to be mandated now instead of door knobs on most public buildings because if you've lost the use of your hands through arthritis or you simply don't have any hands, you can you can easily use an elbow to open a door handle, but a doorork knob basically means you're trapped.
Designing for disabled people actually benefits an audience, a far wider audience than the people you have in mind when you