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Loud, Proud and Prosperous! Report on the Mobility International USA International Symposium on Microcredit for Women with Disabilities [PDF]

, 1998
[Excerpt] MIUSA designed the International Symposium on Microcredit for Women with Disabilities in response to recommendations from women leaders with disabilities at WILD, at the Symposium in Beijing, and from our own experience with US-based ...
Mobility International USA (MIUSA)
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Sociotechnical Considerations for Accessible Visualization Design [PDF]

IEEE Trans. Visualization & Comp. Graphics (Proc. InfoVis), 2020, 2019
Accessibility--the process of designing for people with disabilities (PWD)--is an important but under-explored challenge in the visualization research community. Without careful attention, and if PWD are not included as equal participants throughout the process, there is a danger of perpetuating a vision-first approach to accessible design that ...
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Disabled People into Employment: Report of a UK Wide Survey of Good Practice in Projects with Disabled People and Employment Informing Ideas for the Development of a Strategic Framework For Action [PDF]

, 1997
DisabledPeopleinEmploymentNo76.pdf: 4123 downloads, before Oct.
Campbell, Sue Maynard, Smyth, Kate
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Assistive XR research for disability at ACM ASSETS: A Scoping Review [PDF]

arXiv
Despite the rise in affordable eXtended Reality (XR) technologies, accessibility still remains a key concern, often excluding people with disabilities from accessing these immersive XR platforms. Consequently, there has been a notable surge in HCI research on creating accessible XR solutions (also known as, assistive XR).
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Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children: Where We Stand and Where We Go From Here [PDF]

, 2005
Examines the connection between access to technology and the health, economic opportunity, community involvement, and educational achievement of youth.
Andrew Wainer, Laurie Lipper, Wendy Lazarus   +2 more
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Chronic Poverty and Disability in Uganda [PDF]

, 2003
The study of poverty - situation, dynamics, and impact - has received much impetus in the last 10 years in Uganda. Evidence from the country’s Household Surveys and the recently concluded Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) has yielded much needed ...
Lwanga-Ntale, Charles
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Engineering Adaptive Information Graphics for Disabled Communities: A Case Study with Public Space Indoor Maps [PDF]

arXiv
Most software applications contain graphics such as charts, diagrams and maps. Currently, these graphics are designed with a ``one size fits all" approach and do not cater to the needs of people with disabilities. Therefore, when using software with graphics, a colour-impaired user may struggle to interpret graphics with certain colours, and a person ...
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Fostering Inclusion: A Regional Initiative Uniting Communities to Co-Design Assistive Technologies [PDF]

arXiv
People with disabilities often face discrimination and lack of access in all areas of society. While improving the affordability and appropriateness of assistive technologies can pave the way for easier participation and independence, awareness and acceptance of disability as part of society are inevitable.
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Human Rights of Disabled People in the South [PDF]

, 2006
[Excerpt] This paper focuses on human rights of disabled people in the South. This superficially remote topic is actually relevant to every reader. This article explains that our ignorance has led to the global disparity between rich and poor people and ...
Katsui, Hisayo
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Supporting short break care: an induction guide for the short break workforce [PDF]

, 2010
"This induction guide aims to help employers and workers, in a range of settings, to deliver consistent and effective induction to those providing short break services to disabled children and young people.

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