The sense of touch allows us to process data about our everyday world. Without it, we might have to visually calculate how wide to stretch our fingers each time we reached for the phone or how much pressure to apply when typing on a keyboard. For those with prosthetic limbs, these simplest of tasks are an ongoing struggle.
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While technology takes on a greater role in the college classroom, disability rights groups are seeking to ensure visually impaired students aren’t left behind.
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Now you see it, now you don’t. Disability can be strange like that: it’s everywhere or nowhere, unavoidable or hidden. What you see and how you see it depends, like most things in life, on who you are, your personal experiences and the people you know.
The BBC broadcaster Andrew Marr had a stroke in January and has said that he now feels more aware of people with disabilities than he did before it.
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The stick figure in a wheelchair has become one of the most widely-used and instantly recognised symbols in the world – but a group of American designers want to change this famous icon of disability. Seen on toilet doors, parking bays and practically every public building in the developed world, the International Symbol of Access has been in circulation since 1969. But now a group calling itself the Accessible Icon Project want to give the design a more 21st Century, even paralympic, feel.
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