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Technology and Accessibility - Coggle Diagram
Technology and Accessibility
Disability in the U.S
1800's
People with disabilities were put in institutions or traveling circuses
"Purification" of american people
Didn't want people with disabilities to be seen
Eugenics: belief that human population can be improved by having a superior human breed
1900's
In the 1940's American's witnessed horror eugenics with the Nazi's
In 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed by president George H.W. Bush
Accessibility
President Lyndon B. Johnson passed a law that government facilities were to be made accessible
Accessibility enables access for people with disabilities
Making something that is already accessible for everyone is known as a universal design, such as sidewalks w a smaller curb
Technology
Captions
Captions and subtitles are not the same thing
First show with captions occurred in 1972 but it wasn't until 1990 when all TV's 13 inches or larger included a captioning device inside the TV
Telephones
Telephones were the hardest thing for a deaf person to use