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In Case You Missed It: Accessible School Days

Friday, June 10th, 2011

It’s that time of the year for students to graduate to a new level. This week we have a few education related stories.

Angeline Lavasseur worked with her physical therapist for a year to walk across the stage to pick up her diploma. The Texas Rangers baseball team drafted Johnathan Taylor, despite an on-field collision that left him paralyzed in his junior year of college. The Ocean City High School combined Glee with sign language for a charity performance. Also find out about Teen Connection, a program that mixes college students with teens that have Asperger’s syndrome to learn social skills and build friendships.

We also congratulate Yahoo! Accessibility Lab member Nate Ebrahimoon, who graduates from UC Santa Cruz this month.

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One-Off Solutions

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Disability is characterized by diversity – diversity in ability, diversity of needs, diversity in context, and most importantly diversity of people. Developing broadly applicable technology is important; we should all strive to achieve universal design when possible (and praise the really great designers that do!), but solutions targeting an individual’s specific abilities and context can be just as important.

A challenge for us as a community is to come together to address accessibility problems one at a time, or risk sitting on the sidelines on important problems that we can’t yet solve generally. A challenge for us as researchers is to find the right abstractions and models that allow us to generalize so more people can benefit. Continue reading One-Off Solutions