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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 35 , Issue 5 (May 1992) table of contents

Pages: 36 - 45

Year of Publication: 1992

ISSN:0001-0782

Author

Carl Brown

California Community Colleges, Cupertino

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 17, Downloads (12 Months): 164, Citation Count: 11

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	1	Assembly Bill No. 77 (1975-76 Reg. Sess.) The Lanterman act.
	2	Assembly Bill No. 1725 (1987-88 Reg. Sess.) Community colleges.
	3	Brown. C., Ed. Computer Access in Higher Education for Students with Disabilities, Dec 1986. (Available from The High Tech Center Training Unit., 21050 MCclellan Rd., Cupertino, CA 95014)
	4	Couch, J.G. The physically challenged the computer, and the community college. In H.Murphy, Ed., Proceedings of the third annual conferon Computer Technology Special Educational Rehabititation, 1987. pp. 169-178. California State University. Northridge, Calif.
	5	Engen-Wedin, N., Margolis, W., & Collins, T. Microcomputer word processing and LD college writers: An analysis of outcomes, In Proceeding:s qf'the 1Oth annual ,conference of the Association on Handicapped Student Service Programs in Postsecondary Education, 1987, pp. 171-177.
	6	Harris, I., and Associates, lnc.The ICD survey of disabled Americans: Bringing disabled Americans into the mainstream, a nationwide survey of 1,000 disabled people. New York, N.Y., 1986.
	7	Rehabilitation Act of 1983 (Section 504), 29 U.S.C. Sections 706 and 794 (1973).
	8	Rehabilitation Act of 1983 as amended (Pub. L. 99-506. Section 508), -29 U.S. (.';. 794 d ,( 1986),
	9	The Americans with Disabilities Act (Pub. L, 101-336), (1990).

CITED BY 11

	Shari Trewin, A study of input device manipulation difficulties, Proceedings of the second annual ACM conference on Assistive technologies, p.15-22, April 11-12, 1996, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
	Sandy Ressler , Qiming Wang, Making VRML accessible for people with disabilities, Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies, p.144-148, April 15-17, 1998, Marina del Rey, California, United States
	Shari Trewin, Configuration agents, control and privacy, Proceedings on the 2000 conference on Universal Usability, p.9-16, November 16-17, 2000, Arlington, Virginia, United States
	Shari Trewin , Helen Pain, A model of keyboard configuration requirements, Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies, p.173-181, April 15-17, 1998, Marina del Rey, California, United States
	Shari Trewin, An invisible keyguard, Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies, July 08-10, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland
	Simeon Keates , Faustina Hwang , Patrick Langdon , P. John Clarkson , Peter Robinson, Cursor measures for motion-impaired computer users, Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies, July 08-10, 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland
	Umut Topkara , Mercan Topkara , Mikhail J. Atallah, Passwords for everyone: secure mnemonic-based accessible authentication, 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, p.1-6, June 17-22, 2007, Santa Clara, CA
	Suhit Gupta , Gail E. Kaiser , Peter Grimm , Michael F. Chiang , Justin Starren, Automating Content Extraction of HTML Documents, World Wide Web, v.8 n.2, p.179-224, June 2005
	Yu-Hsien Chiu , Chung-Hsien Wu , Hung-Yu Su , Chih-Jen Cheng, Joint Optimization of Word Alignment and Epenthesis Generation for Chinese to Taiwanese Sign Synthesis, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, v.29 n.1, p.28-39, January 2007
	Alistair D. N. Edwards, Keeping Up with Technology: Commentary on “Computers and People with Disabilities”, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), v.1 n.2, p.1-5, October 2008
	Gregg C. Vanderheiden, Ubiquitous Accessibility, Common Technology Core, and Micro Assistive Technology: Commentary on “Computers and People with Disabilities”, ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), v.1 n.2, p.1-7, October 2008

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
K.4.2 Social Issues
Subjects: Handicapped persons/special needs**

Additional Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
K.4 COMPUTERS AND SOCIETY
K.5 LEGAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING

General Terms:
Human Factors, Legal Aspects, Management

Keywords:
assistive technology, disability

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This excellent paper is valuable reading as it provides “practical information about computer access systems in the MS/DOS and Macintosh environments which satisfy state and federal guidelines and meet the needs of persons with visual, more...

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