Proceedings Of The Governors Conference On The Handicapped

Author : Gregg Vanderheiden
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031092147
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Technology and Disability written by Gregg Vanderheiden and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the development of the Trace R&D Center as an institution for furthering accessible and assistive technologies. The book walks readers through the Center’s nascent attempts to solve individual challenges with augmentative communication devices through contemporary efforts to establish global frameworks and infrastructures for accessibility. This book is premised on the Center’s mission to maximize the potential of people with disabilities by harnessing evolving technologies while at the same time dismantling the barriers created by those same technological advancements. Readers will learn how this has been done in the past and why this practice should be a fundamental and integrated feature in new technology planning and implementation. The book touches on pre-internet technologies before exploring the huge implications of, first, the personal computer and, second, the Internet. In parallel with the massive growth in scale rendered by the launch of the Web, the book traces the expansion of the Center’s focus from the individual to the universal, particularly in working to establish accessibility standards and infrastructures. Learning from the successes and failures of the Center, the book outlines many past challenges and future directions for the development of technologies for people with disabilities from the research and industry perspectives.