Twenty five years of training and education in ICT Design for All and Assistive Technology.
Over the last twenty to twenty-five years 'Design for All' principles and practices including Assistive Technologies have been collected into formal and informal courses which have been used to train designers of Information and Communication products and systems. The aim of this paper is to describ...
| Publicado en: | Technology & Disability Vol. 23; no. 3; pp. 163 - 171 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2011
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