20 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Tom Shakespeare
1. Accessibility. The degree to which information, a service, or a device/product is available to as many people as possible, including people with different impairments. 2. Barriers. Those things which prevent a person with an impairment from being able to get to, or use, information, services, or devices/products. 3.…
Lindsay E. Jones, Grace Eliason, Shivani Gupta, Elizabeth G. Jeong + 3 more
'Abigail Besemer' 'David A. Sterling' 'Jessica M. Fagerstrom'] Title: Abstract Disability and accessibility remain under-addressed topics despite the increasing prevalence of disabled people in the workforce. In the field of medical physics, there is growing evidence that the proportion of people with one or more…
Lijalem Jemberu, Yosef Wasihun, Tadele Fentabil Anagaw, Eyob Ketema Bogale + 1 more
Disability is a condition of the body or mind or impairment that makes it more difficult for the person to do certain activities or activity limitation and interferes with participation restrictions . Disability is part of a human condition that can be experienced at some point in life either temporarily or permanently…
Monnie Parida, Manjira Sinha
> Abstract. The pandemic has affected every facet of human life. Apart from individual's psychological and mental health issues, the concern regarding mobility, access and communication with high risk infection is a challenging situation. People with disability are more likely vulnerable to infections. The new changes…
Kelly Mack, Emma McDonnell, Dhruv Jain, Lucy Lu Wang + 2 more
'Jon E. Froehlich' 'Leah Findlater'] Accessibility research has grown substantially in the past few decades, yet there has been no literature review of the field. To understand current and historical trends, we created and analyzed a dataset of accessibility papers appearing at CHI and ASSETS since ASSETS' founding in…
Silvia Bonaccio, Catherine E. Connelly, Ian R. Gellatly, Arif Jetha + 1 more
'Kathleen A. Martin Ginis'] Despite legislation on diversity in the workplace, people with disabilities still do not experience the same access to work opportunities as do their counterparts without disabilities. Many employers have been shown to harbor sincere yet ill-founded views about the work-related abilities of…
Mohaned G. Abed, Lowai G. Abed, Todd K. Shackelford, Georgios Rachiotis
Many people live with disabilities and many countries worldwide are acting to provide people with disabilities opportunities to find and sustain gainful employment. Notwithstanding, people with disabilities still do not have the same access to employment as their counterparts without disabilities. Although some…
Yuling Hao, Peng Li
In order to promote the employment of persons with disabilities, two dominant legal approaches-anti-discrimination legislation based on the social model of disability and an employment quota scheme based on the medical model-are usually employed on a nation-state basis in disability policies. This article…
Salhazan Nasution, Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin, Noraidah Sahari Ashaari
Pendidikan Khas telah melalui banyak perubahan dan kemajuan dalam sistem pcndidikan di rantau Asia Tenggara. Sehingga kini Pendidikan Khas terus berkcmbang dan mengukuhkan kedudukannya dalam memberi pendidikan seterusnya menyediakan peluang dan ruang untuk golongan kurang upaya menyediakan diri untuk berdikari dan…
Antônio Luiz Marques, Marina Romeo, Marjorye Matalinares, Montserrat Yepes-Baldó
'Montserrat Yepes-Baldó'] The research aimed to identify managers’ conceptions of disability and the relationship that was established between these conceptions and their perception of the persons with disabilities (PWD) performance, bond, benefits of hiring, and training needs. 257 managers answered a questionnaire in…
Amiel A. Dror, Eli Layous, Matti Mizrachi, Amani Daoud + 5 more
Many government websites and mobile content are inaccessible for people with vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted these disparities when health authority website information, critical in providing resources for curbing the spread of the virus, remained inaccessible for disabled…
Mariel A. Pfeifer, Julio J. Cordero, Julie Dangremond Stanton
STEM instructors are encouraged to adopt active learning in their courses, yet our understanding of how active learning affects different groups of students is still developing. One group often overlooked in higher education research is students with disabilities. Two of the most commonly occurring disabilities on…
Denis Newman-Griffis, Jessica Sage Rauchberg, Rahaf Alharbi, Louise Hickman + 1 more
'Louise Hickman' 'Harry Hochheiser'] The increasing deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to inform decision making across diverse areas including healthcare, employment, social benefits, and government policy, presents a serious risk for disabled people, who have been shown to face bias in AI…
Kexin Zhang, Elmira Deldari, Zhicong Lu, Yaxing Yao + 1 more
In social Virtual Reality (VR), users are embodied in avatars and interact with other users in a face-to-face manner using avatars as the medium. With the advent of social VR, people with disabilities (PWD) have shown an increasing presence on this new social media. With their unique disability identity, it is not…
Reuben Binns, Reuben Kirkham
This article examines the concept of 'AI fairness' for people with disabilities from the perspective of data protection and equality law. This examination demonstrates that there is a need for a distinctive approach to AI fairness that is fundamentally different to that used for other protected characteristics, due to…
Hanifa Maher Denny, Yudhy Dharmawan, Praba Ginandjar, Bagoes Widjanarko + 4 more
Medical rehabilitation for person with disability in Indonesia is still an issue. This research aimed to explore Inclusive medical rehabilitation for persons with disability due to leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, and diabetes mellitus in three regions in Indonesia. The qualitative study was employed to gather data from…
Kaelin N. Rubenzer, Jonathan T. Pierce
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) training can benefit STEM students. However, typical college settings often limit college students’ exposure to adult peers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), a historically marginalized group. To lower this barrier, we developed a continuing education…
Nicholas J. Roberts, Toren Hynes, Devon Stacey, Jennifer L. MacDonald
Coloured indicators, whether solution or paper based, are often used in laboratory courses and academic/industrial research as a qualitative method to test important experimental markers. While useful, these tools present challenges to those with colour vision deficiency (CVD), who are unable to interpret the same…
Lisanawork Girma, Kidist Bobosha, Tsegaye Hailu, Edessa Negera
Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease of public health importance and one of the leading causes of permanent physical disability. The integration of leprosy service to the general health system in Ethiopia made leprosy patients to be seen by non-leprosy specialists which could lead to misdiagnosis and delay in…
Janet Sasso, Barbara Ambrose, Rumiana Tenchov, Ruchira Datta + 3 more
In the last decade, there has been a shift in research, clinical development, and commercial activity to exploit the many roles of RNA in physiology for use in medicine. With the rapid success in the development of lipid-RNA nanoparticles for mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and with several approved RNA-based drugs, RNA…