Sidelined or mainstreamed? political participation and attitudes of people with disabilities in the united start sidelined or mainstream?
Explored how disabilities were related to attitudes towards political participation. Continue reading
Civic Design Bibliography | cognitive-disability
Designing for cognitive limitations
Emphasized the importance of appropriately-designed technology to help overcome these limitations. Continue reading
Competency and voters with psychiatric disabilities: considerations for social workers
Emphasized the importance to assist social workers in making informed decisions regarding preserving and supporting voter participation for people with psychiatric disabilities. Continue reading
Voters with disabilities: challenges to voting accessibility
Reviewed voting access for people with disabilities at polling places and long-term care facilities during the 2008 federal election in comparison to 2000’s federal election. Continue reading
Cognitive impairment and the right to vote: a strategic approach
Advocated and pushes for developments in international human rights law to allow full voting rights for people with cognitive impairments. Continue reading
Assessment of cognition in mild cognitive impairment: a comparative study
Distinguish between those who are cognitively healthy versus those who experience cognitive changes and review existing technology that have been marked to be reliable and sensitive to identifying diseases. Continue reading
Allowing people of age to vote for themselves
Examined how new technology should make voting accessible to all users without relying on the assistance from others and its impact on persons with disabilities. Continue reading
Improving access to voting: a report on technology for accessible voting systems
Detailed the need for accessible voting systems for all voters. Continue reading
The capabilities of people with cognitive disabilties
Approach to justice to gain genuine equality in political and civil rights for people with cogitative disabilities. Continue reading
Enfranchising minors and the mentally impaired
Argued that current age and sanity prerequisites for voting in most places fail to meet the demands of fairness and should be revised. Continue reading
Can the web be made accessible for people with intellectual disabilities?
Aimed to contribute to the social inclusion and best practices for building websites accessible for people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Continue reading
Empowering individuals with do-it-yourself assistive technology
Questions of why assistive technology devices end up unused or abandoned. Continue reading
Technology and everyday functioning in people with intellectual disabilties
Explore and evaluate evidence of the validity of Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire (ETUQ) among adult persons with intellectual disabilities. Continue reading
A framework for supporting postsecondary learners with psychiatric disabilities in online enviornments
Discusses the need for universal design in online learning environments and outlined a conceptual framework to be implemented. Continue reading
Cognitive function and assistive technology for cognition: a systematic review
Examined the relationship between assistive technology for cognition (ATC) and cognitive function by reviewing existing publications and studies. Continue reading
Accessible voting: one machine, one vote for everyone
Reviews Prime III, an open-source multi-modal electronic voting system that grants equal access, privacy, and secure voting for people with disabilities without the assistance of others. Continue reading
Web accessibility design recommendations for people with cognitive disabilities
A review of current web accessibility guidelines concerning design for users with cognitive disabilities. Continue reading
Disabled web use
An overview of how people with disabilities use the web and highlights the wide range of user abilities (accounting for visual, hearing, motor, and cognitive impairment). Continue reading
Efficacy and usability of assistive technology for patients with cognitive deficits: a systematic review
A comprehensive review of 28 papers representing 25 studies and 423 patients determining the efficiency of portable electronic aids for people with cogitative deficits. Continue reading
Desperately seeking simplicity: how young adults with cognitive disabilities and their families adopt assistive technologies
Reasons and context behind user abandonment of assistive technology in the home, emphasizing the need for ease of installation, use and upgrade both by the disabled user and a caregiver who may have to maintain, set up or otherwise use the equipment. Continue reading