Involving people with disabilities is crucial to success of accessibility technologies, says advocacy group

OTTAWA — A new study released today by the Canadian Association of the Deaf – Association des Sourds du Canada (CAD-ASC) has found that including people with disabilities in the research, development and marketing of accessibility technologies can contribute significantly to the success of those technologies. “Unfortunately, this kind of involvement doesn’t happen often,” said Jim Roots, executive director of CAD-ASC, in a press release. “Usually, what happens is that people who don’t have disabilities will create devices and technologies that they think will be useful for us. They are often wrong, because they haven’t bothered to ask us what...