2007 PhD Thesis Final Revised.pdf - Curtin University

Chapter 6, The provision of operating systems, software applications and
hardware, examines corporate policy and the impact that large multinational
corporations and assistive technology products have in the provision of accessible
computing and Internet-related technologies. Through the use of personal interviews
with key multinational corporations, this chapter identifies a number of policy and
product issues that have an influence on the disability divide.
Chapter 7, Survey methodology and findings, discusses the national survey of
blind and vision impaired people, designed to find out what people who are blind or
vision impaired require from computing and Internet-related technologies. This
chapter examines the survey design, survey distribution, the response to the survey
and other methods used to gather the data.
Chapter 8, Analysis of findings, examines the survey results in detail and
identifies the relationship between the computing and Internet experience of people
with vision disabilities and the disability divide. This chapter goes to heart of
identifying key disability divide issues, their relationship with social and
technological barriers and how such barriers can be resolved.
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