Assessment for Assistive Technology 5. Ergonomics and Workplace Adaptation. This project involves other partners, including the Center for Disabilities, at California State University, and University College Dublin. It is quite reasonable to consider linking the tool to the supporting organisation via a technical communication link. The computer forming the heart of the A.T. mechanism could therefore be linked to the Internet and the National support Centre.
Internet access is now a cheap, easily accessible option.
By including a modem into the A.T. system, access to help and support can be an easy and transparent process. The user is also given access to the Internet in its own right, allowing them use it as a work, research or leisure system. Increasingly, programs have their help files linked to a web location allowing for access to the most up to date information, and the two-way flow of questions and responses. Access through conventional software has been difficult to-date for disabled people.