Stetson's courtroom caters to the elderly: every detail was designed to provide the ultimate in access.

See that step up to the witness box? Seems small, unless you can't bend your knees, and then it might as well be a mountain to climb.

Put that witness box at floor level.

That podium in the center of the courtroom looks mighty tall to someone in a wheelchair. Let's have a podium that can be adjusted electronically for height, with side shelves to rest papers.

You wouldn't know it unless you wear hearing-aids, but those overhead lights send out a buzz that interferes with listening. Fix that, please, and while you're at it, provide hearing amplification devices.

Those are just a few of the innovations found inside the Eleazer Courtroom at the Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, billed as "the only courtroom in the country designed specifically with …