Assistive technology[edit]
Main article: Assistive technology
Assistive Technology is a all-encompassing appellation for accessories and modifications (for a being or aural a society) that advice affected or abolish a disability. The aboriginal recorded archetype of the use of a prosthesis dates to at atomic 1800 BC.[53] The wheelchair dates from the 17th century.[54] The barrier cut is a accompanying structural innovation. Added examples are continuing frames, argument telephones, attainable keyboards, ample print, Braille, & accent acceptance software. Humans with disabilities generally advance claimed or association adaptations, such as strategies to abolish tics in attainable (for archetype in Tourette's syndrome), or assurance accent in deafened communities.
As the claimed computer has become added ubiquitous, assorted organizations accept formed to advance software and accouterments to accomplish computers added attainable for humans with disabilities. Some software and hardware, such as Voice Finger, Freedom Scientific's JAWS, the Free and Open Source another Orca etc. accept been accurately advised for humans with disabilities while added software and hardware, such as Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking, were not developed accurately for humans with disabilities, but can be acclimated to access accessibility.[citation needed] The LOMAK keyboard was advised in New Zealand accurately for bodies with disabilities.[55] The World Advanced Web bunch recognised a charge for International Standards for Web Accessibility for bodies with disabilities and created the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).[56] As at Dec 2012 the accepted is WCAG 2.0 (WCAG = Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).[57]
Adapted sports[edit]
Main article: Disabled sports
Wheelchair basketball bout amid South Africa and Iran at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
The Paralympic Games (meaning "alongside the Olympics") are captivated afterwards the (Summer and Winter) Olympics. The Paralympic Games cover athletes with a advanced ambit of concrete disabilities. In affiliate countries organizations abide to adapt antagonism in the Paralympic sports on levels alignment from recreational to aristocratic (for example, Disabled Sports USA and BlazeSports America in the United States).
The Paralympics developed from a rehabilitation programme for British war veterans with analgesic injuries. In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttman, a neurologist alive with World War II veterans with analgesic injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury in the UK, began application action as allotment of the rehabilitation programmes of his patients.
In 2006, the Extremity Games was formed for humans with concrete disabilities, accurately limb accident or limb difference, to be able to attempt in acute sports.[58
Main article: Assistive technology
Assistive Technology is a all-encompassing appellation for accessories and modifications (for a being or aural a society) that advice affected or abolish a disability. The aboriginal recorded archetype of the use of a prosthesis dates to at atomic 1800 BC.[53] The wheelchair dates from the 17th century.[54] The barrier cut is a accompanying structural innovation. Added examples are continuing frames, argument telephones, attainable keyboards, ample print, Braille, & accent acceptance software. Humans with disabilities generally advance claimed or association adaptations, such as strategies to abolish tics in attainable (for archetype in Tourette's syndrome), or assurance accent in deafened communities.
As the claimed computer has become added ubiquitous, assorted organizations accept formed to advance software and accouterments to accomplish computers added attainable for humans with disabilities. Some software and hardware, such as Voice Finger, Freedom Scientific's JAWS, the Free and Open Source another Orca etc. accept been accurately advised for humans with disabilities while added software and hardware, such as Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking, were not developed accurately for humans with disabilities, but can be acclimated to access accessibility.[citation needed] The LOMAK keyboard was advised in New Zealand accurately for bodies with disabilities.[55] The World Advanced Web bunch recognised a charge for International Standards for Web Accessibility for bodies with disabilities and created the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).[56] As at Dec 2012 the accepted is WCAG 2.0 (WCAG = Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).[57]
Adapted sports[edit]
Main article: Disabled sports
Wheelchair basketball bout amid South Africa and Iran at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
The Paralympic Games (meaning "alongside the Olympics") are captivated afterwards the (Summer and Winter) Olympics. The Paralympic Games cover athletes with a advanced ambit of concrete disabilities. In affiliate countries organizations abide to adapt antagonism in the Paralympic sports on levels alignment from recreational to aristocratic (for example, Disabled Sports USA and BlazeSports America in the United States).
The Paralympics developed from a rehabilitation programme for British war veterans with analgesic injuries. In 1948, Sir Ludwig Guttman, a neurologist alive with World War II veterans with analgesic injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury in the UK, began application action as allotment of the rehabilitation programmes of his patients.
In 2006, the Extremity Games was formed for humans with concrete disabilities, accurately limb accident or limb difference, to be able to attempt in acute sports.[58
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