INTRODUCING STUDENTS TO ADAPTIVE COMPUTER DEVICE S For Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 199 0 Gretchen L . Van Meer and Charles D . Sigwar t Northern Illinois University, DeKalb IL 6011 5 I. Introductio n The Americans with Disabilities Act of 199 0 (ADA), which goes into effect in July 1992 , that employers accommodat e mandates qualified people with disabilities . Provisions affecting employees in larg e corporations go into effect in July 1992 . Accommodation may mean using adaptiv e devices, many of which are computer based . Computer science students should kno w something about adaptive computer aids ; however, information on this subject is no t easy to find . We decided to incorporat e this topic into our Systems Analysis an d Design course . One of the things we do in this class is t o give students the experience o f interviewing a user . We decided to combin e that exercise with an introduction t o adaptive computer devices . The procedur e was to give the students a very vaguel y defined problem and to have them look fo r the information they would need
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