The project provides support for usability engineering and validation activities, which includes a quarterly newsletter. This is an organisation promoting design for all and design for able and disabled people. It acts as the UK network for the wider European Institute for Design and Disability. The BIDD promotes design for both disabled and non-disabled people and provides information on all aspects of disability and design across Europe.
Membership is by subscription.
COST 219 publications provide a useful introduction to design for all and the design of telecommunications systems to provide access for those with disabilities. The service is open to the disabled and their carers, as well as professionals working in the area of disability. Advice is based on practical experience, with many of those working for DIAL having some disability themselves. The DAN network promotes the development of an understanding of the need to design products to take the over 50's into account. Collaboration between design and industry is fostered by the network, whose work also includes organising seminars and exhibitions on ageing, and the implications for design.