ITGS: 1.06 Digital Divide and 1.08 Globalization

The use of technology to ensure that everybody is able to access resources, regardless of problems such as physical disabilities.

• Digital Divide

• Equality of Access

• Globalization

• Cultural Diversity

The idea that money, language, education, or infrastructure creates a gap between those who have access to information technologies and those who do not.

• Digital Divide

• Equality of Access

• Globalization

• Cultural Diversity

Special keyboard designed for users with eyesight problems.

• Braille keyboard

• Eye tracking software

• High contrast mode

• Screen magnification

Setting for users with eyesight problems that enlarges text and graphics on a computer screen.

• Braille keyboard

• Eye tracking software

• High contrast mode

• Screen magnification

Software that tracks where a user is looking on the screen.

• Braille keyboard

• Eye tracking software

• High contrast mode

• Screen magnification

Setting for users with eyesight problems to adjust color on a screen, where blacks are really dark and the whites are really bright

• Braille keyboard

• Eye tracking software

• High contrast mode

• Screen magnification

Special printer that can produce Braille text.

• Sticky keys

• Sip and puff

• Braille printer

• Input switches

Hardware that lets a user input data by pressing a simple on-off switch.

• Sticky keys

• Sip and puff

• Braille printer

• Input switches

Setting for users with movement problems that allow keys to be stuck down after pressing so users can enter key combinations by pressing keys in sequence rather than simultaneously.

• Sticky keys

• Sip and puff

• Braille printer

• Input switches

Input devices allow the user to control a computer literally by blowing or sucking on a small plastic tube.

• Sticky keys

• Sip and puff

• Braille printer

• Input switches