What is Accessible Technology (AT)

Accessible Technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment or system that increases, maintains or improves functional capabilities of individuals who have physical or cognitive difficulties, impairments or disabilities.

AT encompasses both accessibility features and assistive technology. Accessibility features such as the options on your computer that allow you to change font size and color for better visibility, are built into software and other technology products. These simple adjustments to your operating system offer free solutions and will make the computer easier to see and use. Assistive technology includes products or equipment, such as screen readers or alternative keyboards that people with disabilities often use to improve their functional capabilities.

Universal (or broadened) accessibility, or universal design means excellent usability, particularly for people with disabilities. But, argue advocates of accessible technology, universally accessible technology yields great rewards to the typical user; good accessible design is universal design, they say. The classic example of an accessible technology that has improved everyone's life is the "curb cuts" in the sidewalk at street crossings. While these curb cuts surely enable pedestrians with mobility impairments to cross the street, they have also aided parents with carriages and strollers, shoppers with carts, and travelers and workers with pull-type bags, not to mention skateboarders and inline skaters.

Ease The Pain, LLC, is offering at an affordable price, a “universal design" bridging device offering relief for persons with back, neck, wrist pain, or other discomfort due to an injury, musculoskeletal condition, or disability while performing such tasks as keyboarding, reading, writing, video gaming, or other related activity.As defined by the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, the term refers to "any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities." Accessible Technology can assist persons with any of the following disabilities: