Instructional Programs . Student Support . Accessible Content is accessible when it may be used by someone with a disability. Applet A program inserted into a Web page. Assistive technology Software or hardware that has been specifically designed to assist people with disabilities in carrying out daily activities.
Assistive technology includes wheelchairs, reading machines, devices for grasping, etc.
Hardware assistive technologies include alternative keyboards and pointing devices. Authoring tool HTML editors, document conversion tools, tools that generate Web content from databases are all authoring tools. Backward compatible Design that continues to work with earlier versions of a language, program, etc. Braille Braille uses six raised dots in different patterns to represent letters and numbers to be read by people who are blind with their fingertips. The result is a line of braille that can change from moment to moment.