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Even in "first world" countries like the USA, '''Assistive Technology''' and '''Accessibility''' adaptations are expensive. People with physical or mental disabilities are often, due to their disability, in the lowest income classes, and have difficulty affording the technologies required. |
Even in "first world" countries like the USA, '''Assistive Technology''' and '''Accessibility''' adaptations are expensive. People with physical or mental disabilities are often, due to their disability, in the lowest income classes, and have difficulty affording the technologies required. |
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In the Open Source Software community, a fair amount of software already exists to aid the disabled. However, they are often not installed or configured by default, |
In the Open Source Software community, a fair amount of software already exists to aid the disabled. However, they are often not installed or configured by default, and can be extremely difficult to add by a ''normal'' user. |
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Under this area, we should seek to list specifically: |
Under this area, we should seek to list specifically: |
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Revision as of 01:40, 23 July 2006
Accessibility and Assistive Technology
Even in "first world" countries like the USA, Assistive Technology and Accessibility adaptations are expensive. People with physical or mental disabilities are often, due to their disability, in the lowest income classes, and have difficulty affording the technologies required.
In the Open Source Software community, a fair amount of software already exists to aid the disabled. However, they are often not installed or configured by default, and can be extremely difficult to add by a normal user.
Under this area, we should seek to list specifically:
- what Assistive Technology software packages should be included in the default olpc distribution
- how they should be configured by default
- what technologies need to have improved documentation to be useful