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A 4 page essay that discusses accommodations that can be made for disabled individuals. This paper looks at various ways in which the needs of the disabled are being accommodated and how this impacts their lives from a philosophical perspective. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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or another (Hanson 29). This classification of people includes those whom society labels as disabled, due to various conceived handicaps. However, examination of this perception of difference suggests it is
the circumstances, rather than the person, that indicate the appropriateness of such a label. For example, a blind person is no more disabled than a sighted individual, and probably has
an advantage, within the framework of a power failure on a dark night (Hanson 29). In other words, given the right environment, with the right accommodations, disability and its accompanying
ramifications, tends to disappear. Therefore, the following investigation looks at various ways in which the needs of the disabled are being accommodated and how this impacts their lives. Since
the advent of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), more is being done to accommodate the needs of disabled persons and this includes the computer industry. There are one-handed keyboards,
large-button keyboards (for people with hand tremors) and software programs that can convert text into speech (Reilly 58). However, once they have gained Internet access, disabled surfers of the Web
are presented with obstacles are many sites are not equipped to receive or understand the information presented by these computer users (Reilly 58). For example, for the hearing-impaired, audio files
should be accompanied by a synchronized text transcript (closed captioning) and audio announcements should also have a synchronized text presentation. When AOL makes its famous announcement "Youve got mail," there
should be a way for the hearing-impaired user to see a similar announcement (Reilly 58). Similarly, it is recommended that accommodations should be made for vision-impaired users. Web sites
should provide information text equivalents of graphics that clearly identify changes from the natural language of a documents text to captions or advertisements, as well as provide text summaries of
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