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Low and No-Cost Assistive
Technologies: Making Large Scale
Deployments Feasible
Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December 2008
Including Accessibility and Human Factors in the
Universalization of the Internet - How to reach persons with
disabilities, the 10% of the next billion
Fernando H. F. Botelho
Mais Diferenças, São Paulo - Brazil
Literacy Bridge, Seattle - USA
Low And No-Cost Assistive
Technologies
The need for large scale
deployments
Examples of low and no-cost
assistive technologies (LNCATs)
Suggested strategies for large scale
deployments of LNCATs
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Large Scale Deployments:
Why?
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities
600 million individuals with disabilities
Just one sub-group: 90% of blind kids
have no access to education
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Path Dependency: Creating
tomorrow's obstacles
An unacceptably small minority has access
to assistive technology and education;
This small minority learns the wrong type
of technology; and
Expensive assistive technology generates
dependency and adds to the vast set of
obstacles to employment.
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LNCAT Examples: Blind Users
Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA)
– Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird,
Miranda, and more.
Orca
– Open Office, Firefox, Evolution, Pidgin,
OCRopus, and more.
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LNCAT Examples: Users with
Physical and Other Disabilities
o
GOK
pVoice
Dasher
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Scaling-up: Suggested
strategies
Increase awareness
Free-up documentation and training
Build on local resources
Build and cultivate - Formal and Informal
Channels
Innovate, do not transplant
Path dependency, the gift that keeps on
costing
Be good if you cannot be perfect
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Thank you!
Fernando H. F. Botelho
http://www.F123.org/
[email protected]
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