Smith, Kel

Digital outcasts : moving technology forward without leaving people behind / Kel Smith. - xx, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index.


Introduction 1. Who Are Digital Outcasts? 2. Interpreting Ability 3. Defining Innovation 4. Why Accessibility Alone Doesn't Matter 5. Playing for Health 6. Universal Life: Rise, Fall and Rise of Virtual Worlds 7. New Frontiers in Technology 8. Designing for the Digital Outcast Appendices Index Acknowledgements Credits


The blind person who tries to make an online purchase. The young girl who cannot speak due to a cognitive disability. The man confined to his home due to permanent injury. The single mother with a long-term illness who struggles to feed her fami.

9780124047051

2013000588


Assistive computer technology.
Computers and people with disabilities.

HV1569.5 / .S633 2013

681/.761