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Assistive Technology (AT) is a generic term that includes assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices and the process used in selecting, locating, and using them. AT promotes greater independence for people with disabilities by enabling them to perform tasks that they were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing, by providing enhancements to or changed methods of interacting with the technology needed to accomplish such tasks. According to disability advocates, technology, all too often, is created without regard to people with disabilities, and unnecessary barriers make new technology inaccessible to hundreds of millions.
Universal (or broadened) accessibility, or universal design means excellent usability, particularly for people with disabilities. But, argue advocates of assistive technology, universally accessible technology yields great rewards to the typical user; good accessible design is universal design, they say. The classic example of an assistive technology that has improved everyone's life is the "curb cuts" in the sidewalk at street crossings. While these curb cuts surely enable pedestrians with mobility impairments to cross the street, they have also aided parents with carriages and strollers, shoppers with carts, and travellers and workers with pull-type bags, not to mention skateboarders and inline skaters.
Consider an example of an assistive technology. The modern telephone is not accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Combined with a text telephone (also known as a TDD Device for the Deaf and in the USA generally called a TTY*), which converts typed characters into tones that may be sent over the telephone line, the deaf person is able to communicate immediately at a distance. Together with "relay" services (where an operator reads what the deaf person types and types what a hearing person says) the deaf person is then given access to everyone's telephone, not just those of people who possess text telephones. Many telephones now have volume controls, which are primarily intended for the benefit of people who are hard of hearing, but can be useful for all users at times and places where there is significant background noise.
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@codeman38 "May have to reconsider the whole iPhone thing again." It's become assistive technology for me. Can't live without it now.
gitchel (jeff gitchel) Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:47:52 -0000
@codeman38 "May have to reconsider the whole iPhone thing again." It's become assistive technology for me. Can't live without it now.
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@karenjan @aforgrave suggested that I get in touch with you regarding assistive technology for special needs students.
MurrayPhillip (Murray P. Clark) Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:11:12 -0000
@karenjan @aforgrave suggested that I get in touch with you regarding assistive technology for special needs students.
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CreeksideRTS (Melissa Lewis) Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:16:57 -0000
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Home from the AT conference...all jazzed up for exciting possibilities...contemplating the Assistive Technology Cert program at UWM
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Home from the AT conference...all jazzed up for exciting possibilities...contemplating the Assistive Technology Cert program at UWM
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