Maybe you’ve heard of the cloud. Depending on who you ask the cloud is the secret to making your business more efficient, the future of computing, a simple revisit to the client-server architectures of the past, or the dangerous aggregation of your data in the hands of a third party. Beyond the hype, the cloud has the potential to dramatically improve the availability of access technology (AT); research is forging the path to putting our AT in the clouds. Continue reading AT in the Clouds
Posts Tagged ‘University of Rochester’
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
Why Accessibility Research
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
In my inaugural post, I thought I’d address a fundamental question for this blog – why accessibility research?
I get this question a lot, and askers come from nearly every camp – academia, industry, and advocates. Accessibility research is a label, and behind most labels is a dogma, something that differentiates that label from others and provides an implicit argument for its existence. Here’s why I think accessibility research needs to exist.
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