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2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Accessibility in Information Technology
verfasst von : Ahmet E Cakir
Erschienen in: Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The term accessibility was originally not related to information technology and related appliances, but to building construction. The Civil Rights Act in the USA, passed in 1964, together with an increasing awareness of the problems many people were encountering with barriers to accessibility, led Congress to take a careful look at the problem in 1965 while considering the Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendment. The Disability Civil Rights Movement, active since the 1960s and 1970s, finally led to ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) of 1990. The milestones between these dates are less important than the origins of the term, Civil Rights Movement on the one hand and architecture on the other. Creating barrier-free access to public buildings for all people was the major goal.