Research Informatics Colloquium 25. For persons with special needs, information technology brings some new problems but also offers a lot of possibilities for support. The efforts to realize such a support will be discussed using the example of blind and visually impaired students at a technically oriented university.
Special attention has to be devoted to access to the different types of information.
Computers connected to the World Wide Web have opened a new world, but the new trends of multimedia will bring new problems.