Dear Jorge;
If I interpret your request correctly, you may find that your search is more
successful in the English-speaking world using the keywords "universal
design" or "accessible design."
In terms of accessible design, which is design specifically seeking to take
into account the needs of the disabled, your particular request in terms of
museum exhibit design could certainly include the Smithsonian Accessible
Design handbook, which is available as an electronic document at
http://www.si.edu/opa/accessibility/exdesign/start.htm
This document, which I hesitate to call by the rather tragic acronym SAD,
draws heavily on an earlier Parks Canada publication:
Parks Canada Access Series: Design Guidelines for Media Accessibility.
Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services, 1993.
A few other links I might suggest in terms of initiating a wide-ranging
bibliographic search in this area:
http://www.astc.org/resource/access/resource.htm
http://www.mos.org/exhibitdevelopment/access/resources.html
http://www.lighthouse.org/about/research/research_current.htm
http://www.housing.gov.bc.ca/housing/access/bibliography/list4.html
All of these in turn branch out along the Web's winding ways.
I hope that this is of some use to you, and I wish you luck from a hot and
sticky Montreal.
Best,
Hans Samuelson
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