Apple has already given ample evidence that a differentiated company when it comes to accessibility. If someone does their homework in this regard, Ma with its products that can be used by basically anyone, regardless of any disability. This week, she gave further proof of that.
THE Magical Bridge Foundation today announced that Ma will help fund the Magical Bridge Playground to be installed at Fair Oaks Park in Sunnyvale. Cupertino, the host city of Apple, is very close by; so close that, therefore, Ma became one of the largest employers in the area.
With the support of Apple (according to 9to5Mac, an investment of US $ 250 thousand), Magical Bridge created the so-called “Innovation Zone”. In the words of the foundation, it is "a dynamic space in the Sunnyvale playground for people of all ages and abilities to meet, learn, explore, create and build new and diverse relationships".
The site in Sunnyvale is the foundation's third park and is expected to open to the public in 2020. There will be 152,000 square meters that will be available to the city's 150,000 inhabitants and tourists, of course. The first Magical Bridge Playground, created in 2015 in the city of Palo Alto, serves about 20 thousand visitors per month.
Magical Bridge Playgrounds are fully designed to accommodate children and adults with a wide range of physical and cognitive skills. According to the foundation, one in five Americans lives with some form of disability and, although radical cultural changes have been made by the American Disabilities Act From 1990, public parks still do not adequately accommodate autistic, cognitively challenged, visually or hearing impaired, physically limited or even older people.
Beautiful initiative by the Magical Bridge Foundation and Apple, of course.
