assistive technology

[ uh-sis-tiv tek-nol-uh-jee ]

/ əˈsɪs tɪv tɛkˈnɒl ə dʒi /

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noun

adaptive tools, as prosthetics or computer programs, designed for and used by people living with a disability to engage in everyday activities: Rather than isolating students with disabilities in special education programs, the school is using assistive technology in the classroom to integrate all learners.

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Origin of assistive technology

First recorded in 1985–90

Words nearby assistive technology

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How to use assistive technology in a sentence

“With data visualizations and infographics and images, you need to utilize alt text and captions and make them very descriptive,” she said, emphasizing that members of your audience may be using assistive technologies to navigate your content.
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Many businesses have been sued over their sites’ lack of support for differently-abled users — a demographic that may rely on assistive technologies to navigate the web.
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Its platform is an AI-powered solution that simplifies websites, optimizing them for use with assistive technologies such as screen readers and keyboard navigation.
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The company participated in a three-year competition backed by the Toyota Mobility Foundation and global innovation foundation Nesta Challenges to enhance assistive technologies.
Start-ups seek to breathe new life into stagnant wheelchair industry|Dalvin Brown|February 19, 2021|Washington Post

Complete male reproductive independence would also hinge on artificial womb technology, which also made headlines in 2014.
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In the absence of cultural shifts, then, new reproductive technology might not matter as much for women as it would for men.
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Adam Thierer is a senior research fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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A step-by-step plan to break from your various technology addictions.
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The technology exists to keep us from ever losing a commercial airliner over open seas ever again.
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He saw my look and said, "Oops, I mean this milestone in paper technology once it is announced to the world."
The Professional Approach|Charles Leonard Harness
A college is not designed to train and discipline the mind, but to utilize science, and become a school of technology.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI|John Lord
In many processes of chemical technology filtration plays an important part.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3|Various
Specialists in science and technology, the peers of those abroad, are plentiful on every hand.
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899|Various
He is presently engaged in a project that deals with the applications of nuclear technology to art identification.
The Atomic Fingerprint|Bernard Keisch