Including Accessibility and Human Factors in the Universalization of the Internet - How to reach persons with disabilities, the 10% of the next billion Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December 2008 Low and No-Cost Assistive Technologies: Making Large Scale Deployments Feasible Fernando H. F. Botelho Mais Diferenças, São Paulo - Brazil Literacy Bridge, Seattle - USA
IGF - Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December Low And No-Cost Assistive Technologies The need for large scale deployments Examples of low and no-cost assistive technologies (LNCATs) Suggested strategies for large scale deployments of LNCATs
IGF - Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December Large Scale Deployments: Why? UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 600 million individuals with disabilities Just one sub-group: 90% of blind kids have no access to education * For sources and additional information
IGF - Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December Path Dependency: Creating tomorrow's obstacles An unacceptably small minority has access to assistive technology and education; This small minority learns the wrong type of technology; and Expensive assistive technology generates dependency and adds to the vast set of obstacles to employment.
IGF - Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December LNCAT Examples: Blind Users Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA) –Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, Miranda, and more. Orca –Open Office, Firefox, Evolution, Pidgin, OCRopus, and more. * For sources and additional information
IGF - Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December LNCAT Examples: Users with Physical and Other Disabilities o GOK Dasher pVoice * For sources and additional information
IGF - Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December Scaling-up: Suggested strategies Increase awareness Free-up documentation and training Build on local resources Build and cultivate - Formal and Informal Channels Innovate, do not transplant Path dependency, the gift that keeps on costing Be good if you cannot be perfect * For sources and additional information
IGF - Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December Thank you! Fernando H. F. Botelho