Braille has helped shape today's education by helping blind people to be able to read and learn. Created by Louis Braille, who was blinded at a young age, and with help from his father, he created a system that would help many of people with a disability be able to learn like everyone else. It is still used to this day, and has been 'translated' into different languages for different nations. It is such an important invention, and without it being created, blind people would not be able to experience
Socioeconomic Factors and Assistive Technology Marion Collins Missouri State University Abstract The impact of technology in the classroom is unquestioned. Whether it be a class in middle school class in Macon, GA “skyping” with a middle school class in Tokyo, Japan or simply one student searching for information he needs for a paper he is writing. The need for access to this technology is not restricted to only the general education population in our schools. Children with disabilities are
low vision, colour blindness, reading disabilities and certain mobility impairments. People with disabilities use digital documents in different ways. Some of them may want to get it Read Aloud using Text-To-Speech software, or read it on Refreshable Braille Devices while others may want to magnify the text and change the foreground and background colour to suit their visual disability. Some of your readers may be using the keyboard to navigate through your documents while others