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Journal articles on the topic "People with visual disabilities":
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Rosado, Inger Solange Maitta, Jenmer Maricela Pinargote Ortega, Eva Alcivar Medranda, and Elisa Ximena Coello Basurto. "Teaching Resilience to People With Visual Disabilities." International Research Journal of Management, IT & Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/irjmis.v5i1.592.
The objective of the research is to develop resilience in people with visual disabilities at the Technical University of Manabí. The work offers a conceptual analysis on visual disability in students. It deals with what is related to the conceptual understanding of resilience, where several authors who have studied the subject are analyzed. The resilient capacity of students with visual impairment and the importance of psychological support is analyzed. The importance of the intervention in resilience is exposed, where the content of the Manual of Intervention in Resilience of Eugenio Saavedra 2011 is analyzed. The results of the measurement of resilience are shown in the students of the Technical University of Manabí who suffer from a visual disability and the situation that could be verified after applying the work of training in resilience to said personnel. Finally, the conclusions of the work are exposed, where the relevance of the study is demonstrated and a group of recommendations is made based on the importance of the results obtained in the research.
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Sediva Neckarova, Alice. "Accessibility of Tourist Attractions to People With Mobility Impairments and People with Visual Impairments in the Town of Jihlava." International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration 2, no. 8 (2015): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.28.1001.
The paper deals with the topic of making tourist attractions in the regional centre Jihlava accessible to the needs of a specific customer segments – people with physical disabilities, namely wheelchair users and people with visual impairments. This is a relevant topic with both economic and non-economic angle and, at the same time, one that is not sufficiently looked into. In the future the number of visitors with disabilities can be expected to increase, being for the given segment of clients adequately prepared may in fact prove to be a competitive advantage
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O'Korn, Danielle W. D., and Joe E. Wheaton. "Assistive Technology for People with Visual Impairments." Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling 26, no. 4 (December 1, 1995): 8–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0047-2220.26.4.8.
The Technology-Related Assistance Act for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988 states that for some individuals with disabilities, assistive technology is a necessity that enables them to engage in or perform many tasks. An important contribution computers have made to enhancing the lives of individuals who have visual impairments is that they have made printed text accessible to these individuals. Specific computer-related technologies for persons with visual impairments and blindness are presented, including speech synthesis, Braille output devices, optical character recognition, and magnification.
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Mital, A., S. Deivanayagam, D. Malzahn, S. Wiker, G. C. Vanderheiden, and A. Freivalds. "Educating People with Disabilities." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 38, no. 6 (October 1994): 417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193129403800606.
Accommodating individuals with disabilities in the workplace is a rapidly growing concern. Furthermore, those who are functionally impaired are in a dire need of assistance. In a classroom, the main function of a student is to learn. Learning is facilitated by an instructor's lectures, writings on the board, use of audiovisuals, etc. Generally, it is presumed that students do not have any common functional impairments (visual, auditory, etc.) and, therefore, no special effort is made to accommodate those who may have such impairments. Obviously, the learning of a legally-blind student or one who has impaired hearing, for example, will be compromised if no assistance is provided. Then there are issues such as providing reading materials for the blind (college catalogues, lecture notes, etc., in braille?). What should be done? The purpose of this panel discussion is to, in general, address and discuss the issues involved in educating people with disabilities, particularly those that are not very obvious or visible (ex., wheelchair confinement). How should university campuses resolve this problem in this age of dwindling resources? Sensitive issues, such as “Needs of the many versus the needs of the few?” and “What responsibility do we have to the few that really need such assistance?”, also need to be resolved.
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Shukla, Kriti. "Access to assistive technology for people with visual impairment." IHOPE Journal of Ophthalmology 1 (September 23, 2022): 79–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/ihopejo_22_2022.
Access to assistive technology (AT) is key to inclusion for people with disabilities in society and its development. Over 2.5 billion people need one or more of these devices globally, but about 1 billion do not have access. Access to these products is even more challenging for people with disabilities. This article reviews national data and government initiatives to understand the present situation of access to assistive technologies and the challenges faced by people with visual impairment in acquiring them. Further, the article discusses the key policy recommendations to enhance access to AT.
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LITSANG, C., and J. WONG. "Enhancing visual search abilities of people with intellectual disabilities." Research in Developmental Disabilities 30, no. 1 (January 2009): 124–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2008.01.004.
Power, Christopher, and Helmut Jürgensen. "Accessible presentation of information for people with visual disabilities." Universal Access in the Information Society 9, no. 2 (October 6, 2009): 97–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10209-009-0164-1.
Nam Kim, Hyung. "Digital Privacy of Assistive Technology Users with Visual Disabilities." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 66, no. 1 (September 2022): 1105–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181322661363.
As technology is advancing, accessibility is also taken care of seriously. Many users with visual disabilities take advantage of, for example, Microsoft's Seeing AI application (app) that is equipped with artificial intelligence. The app helps people with visual disabilities to recognize objects, people, texts, and many more via a smartphone's built-in camera. As users may use the app in recognizing personally identifiable information, user privacy should carefully be treated and considered as a top priority. Yet, little is known about the user privacy issues among users with visual disabilities, such that this study aims to address the knowledge gap by conducting a questionnaire with the Seeing AI users with visual disabilities. This study found that those with visual disabilities had a lack of knowledge about user privacy policies. It is recommended to offer an adequate educational training; thus, those with visual disabilities can be well informed of user privacy policies, ultimately leading to promoting safe online behavior to protect themselves from digital privacy and security problems.
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López-Hernández, Jesús Leonardo, Israel González-Carrasco, José Luis López-Cuadrado, and Belén Ruiz-Mezcua. "Towards the Recognition of the Emotions of People with Visual Disabilities through Brain–Computer Interfaces." Sensors 19, no. 11 (June 9, 2019): 2620. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s19112620.
A brain–computer interface is an alternative for communication between people and computers, through the acquisition and analysis of brain signals. Research related to this field has focused on serving people with different types of motor, visual or auditory disabilities. On the other hand, affective computing studies and extracts information about the emotional state of a person in certain situations, an important aspect for the interaction between people and the computer. In particular, this manuscript considers people with visual disabilities and their need for personalized systems that prioritize their disability and the degree that affects them. In this article, a review of the state of the techniques is presented, where the importance of the study of the emotions of people with visual disabilities, and the possibility of representing those emotions through a brain–computer interface and affective computing, are discussed. Finally, the authors propose a framework to study and evaluate the possibility of representing and interpreting the emotions of people with visual disabilities for improving their experience with the use of technology and their integration into today’s society.
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Henry, Anthony, and Mohammad Rizaldi. "Signage Design for People with Visual Impairment at Commuter Train Station." International Conference of Innovation in Media and Visual Design 1, no. 1 (November 26, 2020): 137–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.31937/imdes.v1i1.1128.
The commuter train is one of the mass transportations that connect several regions around Jakarta, these regions were Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi. The user and the train station with all of the facilities within it are the aspects that relate to commuter train mobility activities. In practice, there are still problems relating to facilities for users with disabilities that haven’t optimally functioned, including signage that designed for users with disabilities at commuter train stations. A special approach is needed to gain insights from users with disabilities related to their experience and needs that can be processed into consideration when designing signage in the commuter train station area so that they are able to overcome the problem that they encountered when using the facility.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "People with visual disabilities":
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Caga, Tabisa. "Factors affecting people with disabilities in the employment sector." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1549.
Since 1994, the South African Government has formulated various policies in an attempt to redress the previous political, economic and social imbalances within the country. The majority of the policies have focused on empowering previously disadvantaged groups including people with disabilities. Despite the interventions, literature reviewed reflects that there is very little progress made with regard to empowerment of people with disabilities in the employment sector. The study seeks to explore and identify factors that affect people with visual disabilities in the employment sector. The researcher used a qualitative approach to investigate the perceptions of people with visual disabilities through conducting focus groups interviews with participants that were recruited using a purposive sampling approach. A total of four groups from Pretoria have been used to draw findings for the research study. During the focus group discussions, a semi structured interview guide was used to generate more in‐depth interpretations from the participants and data was analysed using Tesch’s (1990) framework that is described in Creswell (2003). The findings of the research revealed that people with visual disabilities still have problems in accessing and retaining employment despite the South African favourable legislation. Dominating among the factors that are viewed by the participants to hinder their employability are societal negatives attitudes which include unequal treatment, discrimination when they seek employment, belittling and disregard by employers, coworkers and the society at large. There are also a number of factors that were perceived as barriers to job seekers with visual disabilities which include inaccessible advertising media for vacancies, inaccessible transports systems, inaccessible education and training and lack of funded positions suited for people with visual disabilities.
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Hogan, Claire Louise. "Exploring the social effects of visual loss on human interaction /." View thesis, 1995. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030818.135525/index.html.
Brooks, Gene Iran. "Correlates of substance abuse among people with blindness/visual impairment /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004224.
Hogan, Claire Louise. "Exploring the social effects of visual loss on human interaction." Thesis, View thesis, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/120.
Theories on the impact of visual loss tend to generalise and can simplify complex issues. Two extreme views are challenged that portray the impact of visual loss as catastrophic or as a minor inconvenience. The argument is put forward that the impact of visual loss can lessen with improved interaction, and this theory is tested by the author questioning and modifying her own interaction. The following themes are explored: limbo status and self-acceptance; the common stresses experienced when asking for help; and discriminatory attitudes. The research is action based, and the emphasis is on how individuals adjust and adapt to loss, rather than the stresses experienced.
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Apraiz, Elvira. "Using pictures of paintings as aids to communication with people who have learning disabilities." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247315.
Meyer, Tania. "A social work perspective on the socio-emotional experience of older persons with visual impairments." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1112.
Hogan, Claire Louise, of Western Sydney Hawkesbury University, Faculty of Social Inquiry, and School of Social Ecology. "Exploring the social effects of visual loss on human interaction." THESIS_FSI_SEL_Hogan_C.xml, 1995. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/120.
Theories on the impact of visual loss tend to generalise and can simplify complex issues. Two extreme views are challenged that portray the impact of visual loss as catastrophic or as a minor inconvenience. The argument is put forward that the impact of visual loss can lessen with improved interaction, and this theory is tested by the author questioning and modifying her own interaction. The following themes are explored: limbo status and self-acceptance; the common stresses experienced when asking for help; and discriminatory attitudes. The research is action based, and the emphasis is on how individuals adjust and adapt to loss, rather than the stresses experienced. Master of Science (Hons)
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Kueffler, Mark L. "Awareness and use of assistive technology among older adults with vision impairments in the Midwestern United States." Online version, 2003. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2003/2003kuefflerm.pdf.
Pollard, Eliane Marie Carleton University Dissertation Geography. "Defining recreation access: an examination of the provision and delivery of integrated parks and recreation services for people with visual impairments." Ottawa, 1990.
Loy, Beth. Empleados con discapacidad visual. Morgantown, WV: Job Accommodation Network, Oficina de la Póliza de Empleo de Personas discapacitadas del Departamento Laboral se los EE.UU, 2010.
Ruth, Nussbaum, and Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, eds. Information for travelers with physical or visual disabilities. Washington, DC: National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, the Library of Congress, 2002.
Sharon, Sacks, and Silberman Rosanne K, eds. Educating students who have visual impairments with other disabilities. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., 1998.
Book chapters on the topic "People with visual disabilities":
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Gill, John, and Linda Jolliff. "People with Visual Disabilities." In The Engineering Handbook of Smart Technology for Aging, Disability, and Independence, 143–62. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470379424.ch8.
Rocha Façanha, Agebson, Adonias Caetano de Oliveira, Marcos Vinicius de Andrade Lima, Windson Viana, and Jaime Sánchez. "Audio Description of Videos for People with Visual Disabilities." In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Context Diversity, 505–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40238-3_48.
Façanha, Agebson Rocha, Windson Viana, Mauro Cavalcante Pequeno, Márcia de Borba Campos, and Jaime Sánchez. "Touchscreen Mobile Phones Virtual Keyboarding for People with Visual Disabilities." In Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services, 134–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07227-2_14.
Pardo, Juan Diego, and Alexander Cerón Correa. "Low-Cost Portable System to Support People with Visual Disabilities." In Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V, 954–60. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_121.
Alonso, Fernando, José L. Fuertes, Loïc Martínez, and Héctor Szabo. "Design Guidelines for Audio–Haptic Immersive Applications for People with Visual Disabilities." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1071–78. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11788713_156.
Argyropoulos, Vassilios, and Vassilios Papadimitriou. "Examining the Inclusion of People with Visual Disabilities in Workplace: A Greek Case Study." In Inclusion, Equity and Access for Individuals with Disabilities, 243–62. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5962-0_12.
Yar, Majid, and Nicole Rafter. "Justice for the Disabled: Crime Films on Punishment and the Human Rights of People with Learning Disabilities." In Law, Culture and Visual Studies, 791–804. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9322-6_35.
Sagawa, Ken, Saori Okudera, and Shoko Ashizawa. "A Tactile Tag to Identify Color of Clothes for People with Visual Disabilities." In Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 1420–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_144.
Gonzalez, Ruben, Johnnathan Muñoz, Julián Salazar, and Néstor Duque. "Voice Recognition System to Support Learning Platforms Oriented to People with Visual Disabilities." In Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Users and Context Diversity, 65–72. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40238-3_7.
D’Errico, L., F. Franchi, F. Graziosi, C. Rinaldi, and F. Tarquini. "Experimentation of a Low Cost Public Transport System for People with Visual Disabilities." In Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 257–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05921-7_21.
Mora-Lezcano, V., J. Porras-Fernandez, A. Gomez-Blanco, and M. Chacon-Rivas. "EULER - Mathematical Editor for People with Visual Disabilities." In 2019 International Conference on Inclusive Technologies and Education (CONTIE). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/contie49246.2019.00044.
Estrada Cota, Italia, Jesus Andres Sandoval-Bringas, Monica Adriana Carreno-Leon, Amado Alejandro Leyva-Carrillo, Ariel Osiris Gonzalez Castro, and Kevin Lizarraga Garcia. "Prototype of a video game for visual disabilities people." In 2022 International Conference on Inclusive Technologies and Education (CONTIE). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/contie56301.2022.10004417.
Rupšienė, Liudmila, Milda Ratkevičienė, and Regina Saveljeva. "Towards the Equality of People with Disabilities in the Health System: The Preparedness of Health Workers to Work with People with Hearing, Visual, Movement and Mental Disabilities." In 79th International Scientific Conference of University of Latvia. University of Latvia, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/htqe.2021.28.
Even though the recent decades have witnessed extensive attempts around the world to ensure the equality of people with disabilities in the health system, it has not been achieved yet. To some extent, the problem is related to the education of health workers to work with people with disabilities. In order to gain more understanding in this regard, this paper focuses on the preparedness of health workers to work with people with hearing, visual, movement and mental disabilities: Is there a link between the studies of the health care workers in higher schools and their preparedness to deal with the specific problems that arise when working with people with hearing, visual, movement and mental disabilities? How does a specific subject / module on working with people with disabilities relate to the preparedness of health workers to address these specific issues? How is it related to the integrated preparation during the study years to work with people with disabilities? A survey of 664 health workers (doctors, nurses, kinesiotherapists, and social workers) working in Lithuania has been conducted. The research revealed that a number of health workers were not properly prepared in higher schools to work with people with hearing, visual, movement and mental disabilities. The research has also revealed that while studying a specific subject / module about working with people with disabilities or studying it in an integrated way across a variety of study activities, health professionals become better prepared to deal with the specific problems of working with people with hearing, visual, movement and mental disabilities. The results of the study suggest the necessity to pay more attention to the particularity of working with people with disabilities in health workers education, so that they are more prepared to work with people with hearing, visual, movement and mental disabilities and ensure more equality and non-discrimination in the healthcare system.
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Vartic, Valentina, and Emilia Oprisan. "USE OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN ACCESSIBILITY OF INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS." In eLSE 2019. Carol I National Defence University Publishing House, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12753/2066-026x-19-111.
: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, signed by Romania in 2007, analyses disability as a result of "interaction between people with disabilities and attitudes and environmental barriers that prevent their full and effective participation in society" (Preamble). In the same context, there is talk of "reasonable accommodation", those necessary changes to be made, specific to each type and degree of deficiency, to allow the exercise of rights and freedoms on an equal footing for all citizens. To facilitate access to information for people with visual impairments, a series of technologies have been developed that allow users to use computing and communication technology like everyone else. Depending on the special needs of people with disabilities, the degree of vision impairment, reasonable adaptive solutions have been developed. Depending on the special needs of people with disabilities, visual impairment, we talk about hardware assistive technologies (display, braille keyboard, printers, magnifiers, etc.) and software (voice recognition, speech synthesis, screen reader, etc.). In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of visually impaired people attending a faculty. This determines the necessity of adapting access to information in the educational institutions and for those with visual deficiencies in courses, seminars, at the library, etc. A study at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, reveals students' knowledge of assistive technologies for visually impaired people, the existence and use of faculty, specific needs to access information. The results of the study focus on the direction of changing the academic environment to make access to information available to students with visual impairments.
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Lykawka, Christian, Bruno Konzen Stahl, Marcia de Borba Campos, Jaime Sanchez, and Marcio Sarroglia Pinho. "Tactile Interface Design for Helping Mobility of People with Visual Disabilities." In 2017 IEEE 41st Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/compsac.2017.227.
Bandukda, Maryam, and Catherine Holloway. "Audio AR to support nature connectedness in people with visual disabilities." In UbiComp/ISWC '20: 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3410530.3414332.
Yoon, Chris, Ryan Louie, Jeremy Ryan, MinhKhang Vu, Hyegi Bang, William Derksen, and Paul Ruvolo. "Leveraging Augmented Reality to Create Apps for People with Visual Disabilities." In ASSETS '19: The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3308561.3353788.
Morrison, Cecily, Edward Cutrell, Anupama Dhareshwar, Kevin Doherty, Anja Thieme, and Alex Taylor. "Imagining Artificial Intelligence Applications with People with Visual Disabilities using Tactile Ideation." In ASSETS '17: The 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3132525.3132530.
Coral, William, Alvaro Alarcon, Jose Llanos, and Jose Hernandez. "Home Automation System for People with Visual and Motor Disabilities in Colombia." In 16th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0007929303330340.
Reports on the topic "People with visual disabilities":
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Dodel, Matías, Florencia Fascioli, and Inés Méndez. El acceso a Internet en personas con discapacidad visual. INFORME FINAL DE PROYECTO. Grupo de Trabajo en Ciudadanía Digital, December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22235/info.dv2021.
El presente informe expone los principales resultados obtenidos en el marco del proyecto Internet access for people with visual disabilities: Skills and market needs, llevado adelante por el grupo de investigación Internet of People (IoP) del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Este proyecto buscó hacer foco en uno de los ejes menos frecuentes en la literatura sobre desigualdades digitales: las discapacidades sensoriales, particularmente la visual. Las tecnologías digitales tienen gran potencial para generar un impacto positivo en la vida de las personas ciegas y con baja visión, pero la falta de accesibilidad a estas tecnologías y al contenido que ellas transmiten puede provocar, por lo contrario, serias barreras. Los objetivos específicos del estudio estuvieron orientados, por un lado, a medir y sistematizar cuáles son los intereses y las barreras que encuentran las personas con discapacidad visual cuando deciden usar Internet. En este sentido, se indagó qué quieren las personas con ceguera y baja visión cuando usan Internet, qué tipo de contenidos buscan y cuáles son las motivaciones detrás del uso de Internet en su vida cotidiana. Por otro lado, y asumiendo inicialmente que el acceso a Internet puede ser una restricción para esta población, el proyecto buscó indagar en cómo acceden a esta tecnología las personas con discapacidad visual y qué herramientas asistivas median —o no median— este acceso. El proyecto fue llevado adelante entre marzo de 2017 y marzo de 2020, con el financiamiento del Carolan Research Institute. Contó con la participación de un equipo multidisciplinario integrado por personas con y sin discapacidad sensorial. A través de un abordaje metodológico cuantitativo y cualitativo, la investigación buscó contribuir a problematizar el acceso a la tecnología por parte de las personas con discapacidad, sus principales motivaciones, intereses y barreras.
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Iemmi*, Valentina, Hannah Kuper*, Lorna Gibson, K. Suresh Kumar, Santosh Rath, Sally Hartley, Gudlavalleti VS Murthy, Vikram Patel, Joerg Weber, and Karl Blanchet. Community-based rehabilitation for people with disabilities. International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), July 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.23846/srs004.
Rotenberg, Sara, Matthew B. Downer, Hilary Brown, Jane Cooper, Sabrina Campanella, Yousef Safar, Gabrielle M. Katz, et al. COVID-19 Vaccination for People with Disabilities. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.35.1.0.
Thompson, Stephen, Brigitte Rohwerder, and Clement Arockiasamy. Freedom of Religious Belief and People with Disabilities: A Case Study of People with Disabilities from Religious Minorities in Chennai, India. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/creid.2021.003.
India has a unique and complex religious history, with faith and spirituality playing an important role in everyday life. Hinduism is the majority religion, and there are many minority religions. India also has a complicated class system and entrenched gender structures. Disability is another important identity. Many of these factors determine people’s experiences of social inclusion or exclusion. This paper explores how these intersecting identities influence the experience of inequality and marginalisation, with a particular focus on people with disabilities from minority religious backgrounds. A participatory qualitative methodology was employed in Chennai, to gather case studies that describe in-depth experiences of participants. Our findings show that many factors that make up a person’s identity intersect in India and impact how someone is included or excluded by society, with religious minority affiliation, caste, disability status, and gender all having the potential to add layers of marginalisation. These various identity factors, and how individuals and society react to them, impact on how people experience their social existence. Identity factors that form the basis for discrimination can be either visible or invisible, and discrimination may be explicit or implicit. Despite various legal and human rights frameworks at the national and international level that aim to prevent marginalisation, discrimination based on these factors is still prevalent in India. While some tokenistic interventions and schemes are in place to overcome marginalisation, such initiatives often only focus on one factor of identity, rather than considering intersecting factors. People with disabilities continue to experience exclusion in all aspects of their lives. Discrimination can exist both between, as well as within, religious communities, and is particularly prevalent in formal environments. Caste-based exclusion continues to be a major problem in India. The current socioeconomic environment and political climate can be seen to perpetuate marginalisation based on these factors. However, when people are included in society, regardless of belonging to a religious minority, having a disability, or being a certain caste, the impact on their life can be very positive.
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Duryea, Suzanne, Juan Pablo Salazar Salamanca, and Mariana Pinzon Caicedo. We the People: Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, November 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002010.
Brown, S. Kathi. The Sharing Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for People with Disabilities. AARP Research, December 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.26419/res.00141.001.
Burkhauser, Richard, Jeff Larrimore, and Sean Lyons. Measuring Health Insurance Benefits: The Case of People with Disabilities. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w21629.
Stanton, Brian, Mary Theofanos, and Charles Sheppard. A study of users with visual disabilities and a fingerprint process. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/nist.ir.7484.
Brown, S. Kathi. The Sharing Economy: Challenges and Opportunities for People with Disabilities: Infographic. AARP Research, December 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.26419/res.00141.002.
Thompson, Stephen, Brigitte Rohwerder, and Clement Arockiasamy. Freedom of Religious Belief and People with Disabilities: Evidence from India. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/creid.2021.004.
Around the world, people with disabilities can be the most marginalised in society. Having a disability and being a member of a religious minority or an excluded social group can compound the reasons why some people find themselves on the outskirts of social systems which normally provide financial and moral support and a sense of identity and belonging. A recent study from India found that identity markers such as religion, caste and gender can exacerbate the exclusion already experienced by people with disabilities. Taking deliberate steps to strengthen the social inclusion of people with disabilities who also come from minority religious groups and socioeconomically marginalised backgrounds can help them fulfil their potential to fully and effectively participle in society on an equal basis with others, and strengthen community ties, making the society in which they live more inclusive.
