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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Educator's Central
Episode: Accessible Technology & Design Impacts All Learners – VSF Technology and the Power of Innovation for Access (EP.23)
Description: Accessible Technology and Design Impacts All Learners – VSF Technology and the Power of Innovation for Access (EP.23)
With Randal Walker, M.D.
“When the wall of exclusion came down, everybody benefited” – Angela Glover Blackwell
Have you heard of the “curb-cut effect”? It is a phenomenon when a technology or innovation comes along meant to benefit one situation or demographic and ends up being used in unplanned ways by just about everyone who has access. Many technologies we rely on today have come about from assistive devices that were originally designed as accommodations for disabilities, e.g. keyboards...