Creative Commons Licensing
What is Creative Commons?
Content creators use Creative Commons licenses to allow others permission to use their work in a standard way. Small content creators and large organizations alike can utilize Creative Commons licenses to allow the public permission to use their creative work under copyright laws. Using the Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work lets users know what they can (and can not) do with that content.
"Baby Gorilla Sleeping" by bartdubelaar is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
What’s the Citation for This Image?
The featured image depicts a baby gorilla sleeping on the back of its parent. This image was marked with a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 license. This license permits reusers to share and build upon the original work in any format as long as the author (bartdubelaar) is credited and commercial usage is permitted.
What is Universal Design?
The goal of universal design is to offer a single experience that all users can access and use to the fullest extent possible. A related concept, accessibility, is concerned with ensuring that people with impairments and disabilities can utilize interfaces and technologies.
Universal design makes products and services more accessible, allowing for improved usability, better experiences, and a more equitable future. The universal design process provides measurable guidelines that allow products to be evaluated for level of accessibility. This process is what takes universal design from a concept into a tangible subset of user experience.