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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| author | Cake, D. Kent, Michael |
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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 |
| spellingShingle | Cake, D. Kent, Michael Hacking the City: disability and Access in Cities Made of Software |
| 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 |