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kestrellContinuing yesterday's topic on improving assistive technology, here's a link toa presentation by Dreamwidth user alexwlchan posted a presentation titled
The Curb Cut Effect
https://alexwlchan.net/2019/01/monki-gras-the-curb-cut-effect/
It explains how inclusive design is good design for everyone, and how technologies designed for people with disabilities become technologies used by everyone.
Those who read my posts for any amount of time know I love talking about how PWD are early adopters and adapters of technology, and how many PWD have actually invented a lot of the technology that gets used everyday by non-disabled people (touchscreen, anyone?), so I particularly enjoyed the article
Fueling the Creation of New Electronic Curb Cuts by Steve Jacobs
http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/technology/eleccurbcut.htm
The book recommended in this post, MisMatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes, is available from MIT Press
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/mismatch
and is also available from Bookshare.org. A brief excerpt from the description sums it up:
"Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion."
The Curb Cut Effect
https://alexwlchan.net/2019/01/monki-gras-the-curb-cut-effect/
It explains how inclusive design is good design for everyone, and how technologies designed for people with disabilities become technologies used by everyone.
Those who read my posts for any amount of time know I love talking about how PWD are early adopters and adapters of technology, and how many PWD have actually invented a lot of the technology that gets used everyday by non-disabled people (touchscreen, anyone?), so I particularly enjoyed the article
Fueling the Creation of New Electronic Curb Cuts by Steve Jacobs
http://www.accessiblesociety.org/topics/technology/eleccurbcut.htm
The book recommended in this post, MisMatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes, is available from MIT Press
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/mismatch
and is also available from Bookshare.org. A brief excerpt from the description sums it up:
"Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion."
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Date: 2020-07-28 07:15 pm (UTC)Hooray! For the definite consummation of cable & Bookport!
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Date: 2020-07-28 07:54 pm (UTC)Then I went to update the firmware, only the link the manual took me to said this was version x, so no firmware updates.
Further poking around found a more recent online manual, so now I have the old manual open in Chrome because it is in HTML and the new manual opened in CHrome because it is online, and there is no version number listed in the title, so I keep getting confused.
Then I need to update the PC software.
Then I need to update the firmware, which I can only update after updating the PC software because the update firmware option isn't even showing up in the old software version.
After updating the firmware, which takes about ten minutes, I go to read the first book that comes up, and it's the manual, but the old version.
It's only by hitting the help key that I find the new manual.
Now it's dinnertime.
This has been my day.
Btw, last night I found out that there is a Discord channel dedicated solely to Hermione/Snape fan fic. I now have a solid reason to learn more about Discord.
Because I haven't read enough "help" docs yet.
Enjoy your dinner!
Date: 2020-07-28 08:09 pm (UTC)Ahhhhhhhh!
Technology is wonderful except when it's horrible.
As I was wandering the web looking for a review of Aimi Hamrai's book, I stumbled on two things of possible interest to you.
A reviewer on a different book excoriated the terrible access design of both print and ebooks, with this helpful footnote:
Another book, Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves gets a glowing review from Ashley Shew here:
https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/7442/5527
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4173/Fables-and-FuturesBiotechnology-Disability-and-the
(also all the Bell Labs links from a recent post are 404ing because AT&T can't be bother to set up redirects.)
Re: Enjoy your dinner!
Date: 2020-07-29 10:21 am (UTC)When I was working on my thesis at MIT, all the journal articles in PDF had been scanned at such a low resolution, that they couldn't be OCRed, not even when the head of the adaptive tech lab tried to make sense of them.
Which is why so few journals cited in my thesis, but I did have about fifty or so books, so no one complained. One of the people on my thesis committee, who is incredibly well-read himself, actually asked the question bibliophiles complain about when people see their book collections: *asked in a tone of awe* "You read all these books?" I considered that a compliment right there.