Tech Publications

Download Introduction to How to Create Disability Access to Technology: Best Practices in Electronic and Information Technology Companies

The book reveals how technology manufacturers gain not only corporate social responsibility goals, but also bottom-line profits by producing accessible products for people with disabilities. This is the first guide to show exactly how the design of common technology products - such as cell phones and computers - benefits from including people with disabilities in design, testing and marketing. It also explains how companies can avoid costly mistakes.

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The book reveals how technology manufacturers gain not only corporate social responsibility goals, but also bottom-line profits by producing accessible products for people with disabilities. This is the first guide to show exactly how the design of common technology products - such as cell phones and computers - benefits from including people with disabilities in design, testing and marketing. It also explains how companies can avoid costly mistakes.

How to Create Disability Access to Technology: Best Practices in Electronic and Information Technology Companies

The book reveals how technology manufacturers gain not only corporate social responsibility goals, but also bottom-line profits by producing accessible products for people with disabilities. This is the first guide to show exactly how the design of common technology products - such as cell phones and computers - benefits from including people with disabilities in design, testing and marketing. It also explains how companies can avoid costly mistakes.

New publication! How to Create Disability Access to Technology: Best Practices in Electronic and Information Technology Companies

This manual explains how today's technology companies are largely ignoring a huge, untapped global market of millions of people with disabilities. In the US alone, there over 54 million people with disabilities­a market that is expected to nearly double in the next 15 years. Five easy-to-read "How To" chapters cover how technology industry experts created accessibility in their companies, how AOL's strategic commitment to accessibility averted a costly Americans with Disabilities Act verdict, and how to use the included extensive resources to understand the disability market and how it will be changing.

Technology and Disability: a global glimpse of the future

WID commissioned several specialists to prepare overviews of key technology topics with a view towards the future. Some of the reports have already appeared in DisabilityWorld, while others are printed here for the first time. The topics selected for an international perspective are: universal design, advocacy and the information society, accessible information technology in the European Union, wheelchair provision trends in developing countries and information technology developments benefiting blind and print disabled users.

"How to Find and Buy Accessible Technology" Program and Curriculum for Organizations and Individuals

This training instructs people with disabilities on how to think about their accessibility needs when it comes to choosing electronic products. The training provides advice and strategies for how to research the products that most closely meet people's needs. One section addresses how to work with electronic companies to improve the accessibility of their products.

"Technology Access for All" Program and Curriculum for Organizations and Individuals (Multimedia)

The free audio-visual program "Technology Access for All" and curriculum were created to help organizations and people with disabilities advocate for access to technology. This presentation package explains what current policy is, what is lacking, and how Federal laws and regulations can help or hinder access to technology information, goods and services for people with disabilities. The training provides an overview of laws, regulations, and policies guaranteeing access to electronic and information technology for people with disabilities.

Broadband: A Vital Communications Link for People with Disabilities

For the more than 6 million people in California with disabilities, advanced telecommunications technologies and services are not just something nice to have. They are a critical communications link and equalizer with the rest of the population. That’s why the World Institute on Disability (WID) was one of the first disability organizations to become involved in the arcane world of telecommunications policy. WID supported deployment of broadband before many people knew or could envision its potential.

Telecommunications Problems and Design Strategies for People with Cognitive Disabilities

This report summarizes a literature review on use of telecommunications by people with cognitive disabilities.

The Internet: An Inclusive Magnet for Teaching All Students

This 21-page handbook promotes access to the Internet in K-12 schools for students with disabilities, students with a variety of learning styles and those who do not speak English as their first language. The handbook provides practical tips, general access guidelines, resource listings and success stories of teachers from across the U.S. who use the Internet in their classrooms.

Electronic Curbcuts (Video)

This award winning video produced by WID in conjunction with Pacific Bell features telecommunications industry leaders, people with disabilities and scripted vignettes of technology used to promote universal design of advanced communications technology for people with disabilities. Open-captioned, open-described, study guide included.

Building the Framework: Telecommunications & Persons with Disabilities: The Second Report of the Blue Ribbon Panel on National Telecommunications Policy

This report lays out the steps that must be taken to incorporate universal design principles into today's and tomorrow's telecommunications equipment and services. It examines the concept of "universal design," the relationship between universal service and universal design, and whether or not new technologies will incorporate universal design principles. Recommendations are set forth in the final chapter. The report also looks at telecommunications policy-making and standards-setting.