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Reminding ourselves that we all are temporarily able-bodied is a good way to remember that you don’t want to be left out of doing the day-to-day things you might do now. If we truly want to be inclusive with the products we create, we have to look beyond ourselves and look at creating things for a wider range of people.

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    Deafness lead to the phone, Internet, and SMS https://sound-advice.ie/deaf-phone-internet-sms-text/

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    The Curb Cut Effect: How Making Public Spaces Accessible to People With Disabilities Helps Everyone https://medium.com/@mosaicofminds/the-curb-cut-effect-how-making-public-spaces-accessible-to-people-with-disabilities-helps-everyone-d69f24c58785

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    7 Life Changing Inventions Created by Blind Inventors https://owlcation.com/humanities/7-Life-Changing-Inventions-Created-by-Blind-Inventors

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    Access + Accessibility https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/exhibitions/1141959921/

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    Vision Aid https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1158794687/

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    Braille Display from HumanWare https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1158817803/

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    Demystifying the Virtual Landscape www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tech-tips-and-tricks/virtual-reality-vs-augmented-reality.html

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    Augmented Virtual Reality benefit Disabled People www.thegenius.ca/augmented-virtual-reality-benefit-disabled-people/

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    XR Access Report compiled by Shiri Azenkot, Larry Goldberg, Jessie Taft, and Sam Soloway based on notes and presentations from the XR Access Symposium

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    Seeing AI www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai

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Gilbert, R.M. (2019). Beyond the Web. In: Inclusive Design for a Digital World. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5016-7_10

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