These facilities must be made available, properly documented and understood for what they can do and correctly put into practice before they can be attributed as worthwhile options. Such systems are now available for IBM, Apple II, Macintosh and Acorn Archimedes Computers, thus providing access solutions for virtually all of the computers used by disabled persons throughout the world, and a substantial proportion of the microcomputers used in the workplace. The process for designing personalised computer solutions, however, will remain much the same. And when that process is pursued smartly and energetically, the benefits can prove to be enormous. Teaching strategies to support these facilities will also need to be carefully considered and documented.
Many teachers are poor users of current technologies in their own private as well as teaching use.
Others have dismissed or shunned the age of computers. Now, they must not only catch up, but also become proficient exponents and users as models for their children and their students. Education is usually slow to respond. New technologies are expensive. They involve a great deal of time and money.