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From: mjt@acd4.acd.com (Mark Teegarde)
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Subject: Computing for the handicapped.
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Date: 3 Apr 91 04:43:34 GMT
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I am not sure if you could make any suggestions, but since
matt@cs.wisc.edu (Matt Schaefer) posted the note about the Johns
Hopkins contest, I am curious about this.

1. What are the needs of the handicapped who use computers?

2. Who are the handicapped people who use computers? How are they
handicapped? What are their disabilities that make it harder to use
computers? (I don't just mean the mentally handicapped like me <grin>)

3. Just for us people who are ignorant of disabilities in general,
what kinds of things can my company do to make it easier for a
handicapped person to work here. Sure we have low-incline ramps where
necessary, rails in the restrooms and an elevator to get to the second
floor, but that is only enough to satisfy state regs for a new
building. What else is necessary to make work-life livable?

--Mark Teegarden

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