Accessibility helps everyone
From: NetworkWorld - 11/04/2002 - page 43
By: Linda Musthaler

Computer users include people with disabilities - the temporary or permanent
loss of a major life function, such as mobility, sight, hearing, or cognitive
ability.  

In recent years, technology vendors have gone to great lengths to make their
products "accessible." Accessibility means the product can be used or adapted
for use by people with disabilities.Take the common modern-day PC. Almost
every PC coming off the assembly line today has accessibility features.
Switches, buttons and plugs are often in the front of a machine so that a
person with limited mobility can reach them. Keyboards have raised bumps on
the F and J keys so that a person with limited sight can find the home row of
keys. The buttons are concave to support limited dexterity accessibility. 

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