The Importance of Information Technology for Visually Impaired Children and Youngsters and the Expectations for Future Development
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Introduction Having been involved as an independent consultant in research, development and consulting activities on visual impairment, enabling technologies and accessibility issues for the past decade and a half, the author discusses the importance of information technology, IT literacy and information access for visually impaired children and youth. The discussions focus not only on information technology as an enabling technology to be deployed by disabled users. Additionally, it discusses the importance of general-purpose IT skills for everyone who wishes to play an active role in the information society.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009