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Driverless cars promise more mobility for elderly

Steve Mahan, who is legally blind, rides in the gumdrop-shaped autonomous car as the first non-Google employee to ride alone. The ride was in October 2015 in Austin, Texas.

They are too old to drive safely or cannot see well enough or otherwise have sound reason to fear climbing behind the wheel of a car. For them, a future when vehicles drive themselves promises unprecedented freedom.

Web Accessibiliy Barriers for Older Adults

accessibility keyboard button on a common conceptual model of a keyboard

The Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences recently published an article exploring the problems that older adults have accessing web-pages. Older adults often encounter barriers to accessing the web due to disabilities like vision impairments, hearing impairments, and motor impairments. Older adults are also more likely to be unfamiliar with the standard […]