SOM Tech’s Inclusive Design Program supports the School of Medicine’s Differences Matter initiative through the inclusive design of programs, products, and services. It seeks to share best practices and processes across inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility by providing a human-centered participatory design approach informed by a wide range of diverse perspectives.
The Inclusive Design Program provides you with:
- Access to product accessibility audits and review by an advisory board
- Helps you meet UCSF inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility goals
- Contribution to positive social impact
BEST PRACTICES
SOM Tech strives to ensure that our work is truly useful and open to all by focusing on diverse perspectives and abilities. This effort includes testing our products and services for accessibility as part of our QA (Quality Assurance) process and conducting usability testing with people who rely on assistive technologies to access digital environments. View our Digital Accessibility Commitment.
INCLUSION
SOM Tech seeks to include a wide range of perspectives, attitudes, and abilities when designing and building digital products and services through partnership and collaboration. We use a variety of participatory and human centered techniques with the goal of re-balancing the power dynamic between us (the technologists) and the wider community who use or benefit from our products and services.
WORK CULTURE
SOM Tech strives to optimize equity and inclusion in our culture by embedding IDEA principles into all the work we do. We are committed to learning, listening, and collaborating with the wider UCSF community.