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The TIC demolishes barriers

A report of the Meeting of Castile and Leon analyzes the technological solutions for the people who suffer some incapacity

The TIC demolishes barriers

That a blind person can follow a film in the cinema and sail by Internet, a deaf person to use a movable telephone or a person with a mobility problem in the hands can amuse itself with videojuego is possible thanks to the TIC. A great fan of tools exists that facilitates the accessibility of the disabled ones to the society of the knowledge and, nevertheless, this was cradle in the interactivity and the access to the information can become a new source of social exclusion.

Within the initiative “Digital Inclusion� of the Regional Strategy for the Digital Society of Knowledge 2007-2013, the Meeting of Castile and Leon has published a study in which it identifies and it analyzes of detailed form the problems and the specific needs of the groups with incapacity (visual, auditory, intellectual and motorboat), which they represent the ten percent of the population of the community.

The report “and-Accessibility: Elimination of Barriers for the Access to the Digital Society of the Knowledge� picks up, in addition, a great variety of solutions TIC related to the Network, the movable telephony and computer science, as well as the tie ones to the home (domótica) and the leisure, and makes special mention to the TDT, whose digital technology allows to interact, a great opportunity to advance in the normalization of the use of the television on the part of this people, since it presents/displays technical new features that make the suppression feasible of the possible impediments.

Interactive slates, seven specific models of mouse for each situation, virtual, reading keyboards of screen, service of subtitleholder and audiodescripción for the television, the cinema and the theater and houses totally adapted for those who have difficulties to move are only some samples of which, if there is will, it must not why have brakes for the people with some limitation, according to shows east document, drafted by the Regional Observatory of the Society of the Information.

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