Session 3

Catching the Wave: Information Technologies, Accessibility and Inclusion

Session Description:

Information technology has been heralded as providing liberation for people with disabilities. And in some cases it has – access to newspapers, health information and other material is much easier on the Internet for blind users, webcams can provide long-distance face-to-face contact for people with intellectual disabilities, Deaf Internet users don’t need to use hearing people to access information when they go on line. But much information technology continues to exclude people with disabilities, with limited access to the technology itself, as well as through lack of inclusion of the unique interests and needs of particular groups of people with disabilities. In this seminar, Gary Annable and Deborah Stienstra of the Disability and Information Technologies (Dis-IT) Research Alliance will release research findings and share their insights and reflections on the successes and challenges of catching the wave of research collaboration.