ADA IS THE FLOOR, NOT THE FINISH LINE
A practical field guide to creating meaningful inclusive play.
A playground can satisfy accessibility requirements and still leave children without meaningful choices, comparable challenges, social connection, or a genuine sense of belonging.
This premium 24-page field guide moves beyond minimum compliance to examine what inclusive play looks like in practice. It combines clear ADA guidance with design frameworks, evaluation tools, common failure points, and reusable worksheets that can improve an actual playground project.
Inside the guide:
The difference between accessibility and inclusion
ADA play-component and accessible-route guidance
Ramp access versus transfer access
Surfacing and long-term accessibility
The Participation Chain diagnostic
Mobility, sensory, cognitive, communication, and social-play lenses
Caregiver inclusion and graduated challenge
Common inclusive-design anti-patterns
Eight high-value design patterns
Activity-mix mapping worksheet
Complete journey audit
Scored concept-review tool
Created for parks and recreation professionals, schools, designers, landscape architects, community advocates, owners, and project teams who want to create playgrounds that offer more than technical access.
$19 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
Meet the standard. Then keep designing.
ADA IS THE FLOOR, NOT THE FINISH LINE
A practical field guide to creating meaningful inclusive play.
A playground can satisfy accessibility requirements and still leave children without meaningful choices, comparable challenges, social connection, or a genuine sense of belonging.
This premium 24-page field guide moves beyond minimum compliance to examine what inclusive play looks like in practice. It combines clear ADA guidance with design frameworks, evaluation tools, common failure points, and reusable worksheets that can improve an actual playground project.
Inside the guide:
The difference between accessibility and inclusion
ADA play-component and accessible-route guidance
Ramp access versus transfer access
Surfacing and long-term accessibility
The Participation Chain diagnostic
Mobility, sensory, cognitive, communication, and social-play lenses
Caregiver inclusion and graduated challenge
Common inclusive-design anti-patterns
Eight high-value design patterns
Activity-mix mapping worksheet
Complete journey audit
Scored concept-review tool
Created for parks and recreation professionals, schools, designers, landscape architects, community advocates, owners, and project teams who want to create playgrounds that offer more than technical access.
$19 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
Meet the standard. Then keep designing.
