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Making Computers Accessible : Disability Rights and Digital Technology.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (207 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421416472
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Computers AccessibleDDC classification:
  • 004.16087
LOC classification:
  • HV1569.5 .P48 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Development of Accessible Personal Computer Technologies -- Chapter 1 Disability Rights and Technology before the Personal Computer -- Chapter 2 Early Personal Computer Accessibility, 1980-1987 -- Chapter 3 Corporate Philanthropy and the National Special Education Alliance -- Chapter 4 The Growth of Disability Rights and Accessible Computer Technologies -- Chapter 5 Accessibility and Software Applications in the 1990s -- Conclusion: The Promises of Personal Computers -- Notes -- A Note on Theory, Method, and Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: 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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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Development of Accessible Personal Computer Technologies -- Chapter 1 Disability Rights and Technology before the Personal Computer -- Chapter 2 Early Personal Computer Accessibility, 1980-1987 -- Chapter 3 Corporate Philanthropy and the National Special Education Alliance -- Chapter 4 The Growth of Disability Rights and Accessible Computer Technologies -- Chapter 5 Accessibility and Software Applications in the 1990s -- Conclusion: The Promises of Personal Computers -- Notes -- A Note on Theory, Method, and Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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