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Assistive technology for disabled visual artists: exploring the impact of digital technologies on artistic practice
- Author:
- CREED Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 33(7), 2018, pp.1103-1119.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Disabled artists with physical impairments can experience significant barriers in producing creative work. Digital technologies offer alternative opportunities to support artistic practice, but there has been a lack of research investigating the impact of assistive digital tools in this context. This article explores the current practice of physically impaired visual artists and their experiences around the use of digital technologies. An online survey was conducted with professional disabled artists and followed up by face-to-face interviews with 10 invited artists. The findings illustrate the issues disabled artists experience in their practice and highlight how they are commonly using mainstream digital technologies as part of their practice. However, there is little awareness around novel forms of technology (e.g. eye gaze tracking) that present new creative opportunities. The importance of digital tools for supporting wider practice (i.e. administrative and business tasks) was also highlighted as a key area where further work is required. (Publisher abstract)
Promoting independence for wheelchair users: the role of home accommodations
- Authors:
- ALLEN Susan, RESNIK Linda, ROY Jason
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 46(1), February 2006, pp.115-123.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The objective of this research was to investigate whether home accommodations influence the amount of human help provided to a nationally representative sample of adults who use wheelchairs. The authors analyzed data from the Adult Disability Follow-back Survey (DFS), Phase II, of the Disability Supplement to the 1994–1995 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS-D). The analytic sample consisted of 899 adults aged 18 and older who reported using wheelchairs in the previous 2 weeks. The authors conducted logistic regression and ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analyses to test the influence of home accommodations on the receipt of any human help, and among respondents who received help, on the hours of help received, respectively. The authors analyzed paid and unpaid help separately. Home accommodations were related to the receipt of unpaid, but not paid, help. Relative to having no home accommodations, the presence of each additional accommodation decreased the odds of having unpaid help by 14%. Additionally, the authors observed an inverse relationship between the number of accommodations in the home and hours of unpaid help. For wheelchair users who live alone, specific types of home accommodations were also inversely related to hours of unpaid help. Policies that reimburse for home accommodations may be an efficient response to the growing demand for home-care support while enabling greater autonomy and independence for people who use wheelchairs.
Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee: consultation on DPTAC 2005-07 strategy
- Author:
- DISABLED PERSONS TRANSPORT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Publisher:
- Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 13p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee (DPTAC) was established in 1986 to provide independent advice to Government on the transport needs of all disabled people (Transport Act 1985). The aim of DPTAC is to ensure that disabled people can go where everyone else goes and can do so easily and without encountering additional barriers or incurring extra costs. It seeks: to firstly provide timely, focused and credible advice to Government on the transport and built environment needs of all disabled people, the advice to be representative of the broad views of disabled people in the United Kingdom on nondevolved issues. Secondly to provide guidance and advice to the transport and built environment industries and others on how best to meet the varying needs of all disabled people, taking account of gender, race, faith, sexuality, age and other relevant factors; and thirdly to ensure that service providers inform disabled people of developments in accessible transport and the built environment. DPTAC wants to learn the views and comments of those with an interest in its work on the form and content of the 2005-2007 Strategy and objectives.
Open season
- Author:
- MORGAN Brian
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 24.04.03, 2003, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Every health care trust is required to conduct an audit of disability access at its premises. This article considers the less obvious things to take into account, and how staff can be made aware of the key issues.
Gowrings Mobility smooth ride guide: United Kingdom
- Author:
- RAMSEY July
- Publisher:
- Gowrings Mobility
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 436p.
- Place of publication:
- Ferneux Pelham
A UK travel guide for people with mobility difficulties and wheelchair users including attractions, accommodation and leisure and sporting facilities which meet the stringent national accessibility criteria. All inclusions have been accessed to ensure they continue to meet the national accessibility criteria.
Assistive technology provision: towards an international framework for assuring availability and accessibility of affordable high-quality assistive technology
- Authors:
- de WITTE Luc, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 13(5), 2018, pp.467-472.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Purpose: This is a position paper describing the elements of an international framework for assistive technology provision that could guide the development of policies, systems and service delivery procedures across the world. It describes general requirements, quality criteria and possible approaches that may help to enhance the accessibility of affordable and high quality assistive technology solutions. Materials and methods: The paper is based on the experience of the authors, an analysis of the existing literature and the inputs from many colleagues in the field of assistive technology provision. It includes the results of discussions of an earlier version of the paper during an international conference on the topic in August 2017. Results and conclusion: The paper ends with the recommendation to develop an international standard for assistive technology provision. Such a standard can have a major impact on the accessibility of AT for people with disabilities. The paper outlines some the key elements to be included in a standard. (Edited publisher abstract)
Assistive technology: independence and well-being
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper looks in more depth at the role of assistive technology (AT) in supporting independence. It examines the place of AT in the current policy context and describes the current evidence to demonstrate how AT can support independence. It analyses the current obstacles to progress and explains how change can be introduced. New assistive technology can play a vital role in supporting the ways in which millions of older or disabled people can maintain or regain their independence. It also has the potential to modernise the way in which many aspects of health and social care are currently delivered to the benefit of users, carers, service providers and the taxpayer.
The web: access and inclusion for disabled people: a formal investigation conducted by the Disability Rights Commission
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 48p.
This report demonstrates that most websites are inaccessible to many disabled people and fail to satisfy even the most basic standards for accessibility recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium. It is also clear that compliance with the technical guidelines and the use of automated tests are only the first steps towards accessibility: there can be no substitute for involving disabled people themselves in design and testing, and for ensuring that disabled users have the best advice and information available about how to use assistive technology, as well as the access features provided by Web browsers and computer operating systems. Disabled people must frequently overcome additional obstacles before they can enjoy the full range of information, services, entertainment and social interaction offered by the Web: blind people need sites to provide, for example, text as an alternative to images for translation into audible or legible words by specially designed screenreading devices; partially sighted people may be especially reliant upon large-format text and effective colour contrast; people who are dyslexic or have cognitive impairments may benefit in particular from the use of simpler English or alternative text formats, such as Easy Read, and from the clear and logical layout of an uncluttered website; people whose first language is British Sign Language may also find Plain English indispensable; and people with manual dexterity impairments may need to navigate with a keyboard rather than with a mouse.
Digital disability: the social construction of disability in new media
- Authors:
- GOGGIN Gerard, NEWELL Christopher
- Publisher:
- Roman and Littlefield
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 182p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications - such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting - have created a need for a more innovative understanding of new media and disability issues. This analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers and the disabled themselves.
The impact of Part M on the design of new housing
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Part M of the Building Regulations requires housebuilders to construct new housing to standards that enable disabled people, particularly wheelchair users and those with mobility or ambulant impairments, to visit a house and have access to a groundfloor living space and toilet. It also seeks to enable occupiers to cope better with any reduction in their mobility. There is, however, little or no information about the impact of the regulation on the design of new dwellings. This study, researched the attitudes of builders and building control officers towards Part M and how the regulation is being interpreted and applied.