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Making Computers Accessible

Disability Rights and Digital Technology

Autor: Elizabeth R. Petrick

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Johns Hopkins University Press

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In 1974, not long after developing the first universal optical character recognition technology, Ray...

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Autor

Elizabeth R. Petrick

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2015

strony

208

EAN

9781421416465

ISBN

1421416468

Enbook ID

09083609

Wydawca

Johns Hopkins University Press

Waga

410

Wymiary

236 x 160 x 19

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In 1974, not long after developing the first universal optical character recognition technology, Raymond Kurzweil struck up a conversation with a blind man on a flight. Kurzweil explained that he was searching for a use for his new software. The blind man expressed interest: One of the frustrating obstacles that blind people grappled with, he said, was that no computer program could translate text into speech. Inspired by this chance meeting, Kurzweil decided that he must put his new innovation to work to "overcome this principal handicap of blindness." By 1976, he had built a working prototype, which he dubbed the Kurzweil Reading Machine. This type of innovation demonstrated the possibilities of computers to dramatically improve the lives of people living with disabilities. In Making Computers Accessible, Elizabeth R. Petrick tells the compelling story of how computer engineers and corporations gradually became aware of the need to make computers accessible for all people. Motivated by user feedback and prompted by legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, which offered the promise of equal rights via technological accommodation, companies developed sophisticated computerized devices and software to bridge the accessibility gap. People with disabilities, Petrick argues, are paradigmatic computer users, demonstrating the personal computer's potential to augment human abilities and provide for new forms of social, professional, and political participation. Bridging the history of technology, science and technology studies, and disability studies, this book traces the psychological, cultural, and economic evolution of a consumer culture aimed at individuals with disabilities, who increasingly rely on personal computers to make their lives richer and more interconnected.

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