United Cerebral Palsy Assn of Santa Clara & San Mateo Counties, CAServing all people with disabilities and their familiesHow effectively can I handle the computer equipment?
Use the colored balls to help you sort out multiple choices. Follow the same color ball across the chart for the difficulty, approach and tool that match. Once you have found a tool you would like to know more about, go to the Tools section.
 
Ability
Difficulty
Approach
Tool
Can understand how to handle equipment Physical manipulation 
Reading print materials and manuals
Create access to disks 
Create access to system 
Create access to printer 
Request accessible format 
Create accessible format
Hard disk drives 
Environmental control units 
Printers 
Braille embossers, translators 
Software: friendly documentation 
Screen readers 
Speech synthesizers 
Reading machines 
Optical character recognition and scanners 
 
Can physically handle equipment Comprehending task Simplify entry to programs and files 
Simplify disk operation 
Simplify on/off
Operating system 
Hard disk drives 
Menu management programs
Ability
Difficulty
Approach
Tool

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