Hacking the City: disability and Access in Cities Made of Software

Citizens with impairments manage a disabling environment of barriers, borders, walls, steps and inconvenience. Yet there have been transformations of buildings, roads and signs after decades of activism. Cake and Kent investigate how this analogue history applies to digital environments. The imperat...

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Main Authors: Cake, D., Kent, Michael
Other Authors: Tara Brabazon
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Springer 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11717
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description Citizens with impairments manage a disabling environment of barriers, borders, walls, steps and inconvenience. Yet there have been transformations of buildings, roads and signs after decades of activism. Cake and Kent investigate how this analogue history applies to digital environments. The imperative for universal design – being aware of the multiple uses and literacies that approach any product of environment – is crucial when enabling a digital city.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-117172017-09-13T14:58:11Z Hacking the City: disability and Access in Cities Made of Software Cake, D. Kent, Michael Tara Brabazon Citizens with impairments manage a disabling environment of barriers, borders, walls, steps and inconvenience. Yet there have been transformations of buildings, roads and signs after decades of activism. Cake and Kent investigate how this analogue history applies to digital environments. The imperative for universal design – being aware of the multiple uses and literacies that approach any product of environment – is crucial when enabling a digital city. 2014 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11717 10.1007/978-94-007-7235-9_8 Springer restricted
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title Hacking the City: disability and Access in Cities Made of Software
title_full Hacking the City: disability and Access in Cities Made of Software
title_fullStr Hacking the City: disability and Access in Cities Made of Software
title_full_unstemmed Hacking the City: disability and Access in Cities Made of Software
title_short Hacking the City: disability and Access in Cities Made of Software
title_sort hacking the city: disability and access in cities made of software
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11717