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Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Making Online Information Accessible to Students with Disabilities, Part II - Janna Siegel Robertson and James Wallace Harris, the Technology Source
Internet access and usage for individuals with disabilities is a growing problem in the field of instructional technology. Approximately 10% of American adults have a severe disability that requires assistance in their performance of daily activities (McNeil, 1997). In terms of visual impairments alone, 80 million people suffer from potentially blinding eye disease, 11.4 million people have visual conditions not correctable by glasses, and 1.1 million are legally blind (University of Washington Department of Ophthalmology, 2000). To address the concerns and issues of Americans with disabilities, Congress passed Section 508 of the 1998 Rehabilitation Act. Since then, additional Section 508 guidelines have been adopted to meet the needs of those who rely on assistive software devices in their use of information technology.
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