Ease of use - an essential quality
Office workers with disabilities, whether they’re wheelchair users, visually impaired or have dexterity problems - know full well how important user friendly business equipment is. One of the aims of Konica Minolta Universal design concept is to ensure that our machines do not discriminate against users.
Even the most sophisticated business equipment is of little value if it is too difficult to use. That’s why ease of use is one of the key characteristics of all Konica Minolta’s business equipment. Now Konica Minolta has taken this ease-of-use principle one step further by launching its Universal Design Concept. From now on, all of Konica Minolta’s new business equipment will fulfil the minimum requirements of this Universal Design Concept.
This user-friendly Concept also complies with the growing statutory demands for everyone to have “an opportunity to participate in the global information society” (eEurope 2002 & 2005). In the USA Federal agencies are now required to “ensure that ... technology is accessible to employees ... to the extent it does not pose an undue burden”. Konica Minolta’s unique Universal Design Concept fulfils these requirements. Evidence of the suitability of Konica Minolta’s machines for use by disabled people comes from the certification issued by TÜV Product Service GmbH, a well- respected German organisation of technical service providers (see opposite).
