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How People with Disabilities Use Digital Technology.

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Ade, reporter with limited use of his arms.

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Hello! I’m Ade,

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I’m quadriplegic, which means I have limited movement

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in my arms as well as my legs.

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The techonology I use is really important to me.

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I use a lot of keyboard shortcuts,

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especially for the programs that I use often.

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For example, scrolling a page is much easier with the arrow keys on

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the keyboard than by clicking on that button in the scroll bar.

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Unfortunately, many websites and apps

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don’t work well with my keyboard.

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Often what has focus is not clear

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or it jumps around completely out of order.

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Sometimes that doesn’t work well because some websites

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and apps don’t work in landscape orientation,

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which is how I setup my tablet so that the

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buttons are big enough for me to click.

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While I can use a keyboard and joystick,

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I can’t use them for long periods because it’s tiring.

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So, I recently started using speech control software as well.

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It allows me to dictate text instead of typing,

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and to say certain commands instead of clicking.

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It’s really hard to learn a new way of working after so many years

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but I’ve been patient with it and I’m slowly getting used to it.

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The most difficult thing is buttons without labels.

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It is not clear which voice commands will activate them.

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You can help make technology accessible to me.

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Accessibility: It’s about people.

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For more information from the Web Accessibility Initiative on How

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People with Disabilities Use Digital Technology,

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visit w3.org/WAI/people