Technology – How it’s Changed the Job Market and Created Opportunities For People With Disabilities
Davida Shensky asked:
Have you ever thought about how technology influences your everyday life today, both at work and at home. Many products and services developed to meet the needs of people with disabilities is a commonly used by everyone today. For instance the Internet, for someone who is homebound this allows them to have connections to the outside world, especially if they have a lifetime getting around without proper transportation. Even the government is interested in making the Internet available to everyone, especially those who have little funds and cannot afford to pay to access the Internet.
In the home you have a lot of appliances such as a microwave, so you can cook meals quickly instead of starting from scratch. You can go to the frozen section of the food market and by the meals that can be made with the microwave. They are also consciously and making nutritional frozen meals that can be made in the microwave. This is great for teenagers fall when they come home from school, and for people who have never learned how to cook from scratch.
You even buy prepackaged ground coffee to put in coffee makers that you can use to make fresh coffee, especially if you don’t know how to measure it out your self. This is really great for people who have a hard time seeing and know whether they are measuring out the right amount for the number of people they want to make coffee for. These are just two ways technology helps us in our everyday lives to manage activities of daily living. Since how many times, when a spouse has died, and the spouse left behind has never cooked or learn to cook.
In the business world, many companies don’t need about hiring people with disabilities, because they think it is expensive to adapt to the needs of someone with a disability. This is not true, it may be just raising or lowering the table, two with just to someone who is in a wheelchair. It may be just buying software for the computer, to adapt to the needs of the individual who is using it. Such as, Nuance, offers Dragon NaturallySpeaking to assist people who have difficulties using their hands, a speech to text program, that does the typing for them. During the holiday season, they lowered the price on this product to encourage the general public to buy and use this product.
Also there is software available that you can install on your computer to keep records of your finances on a daily basis. This was originally developed for tax season, but companies have learned to use this software to keep their records on a yearly basis, to eliminate all the paperwork, when it comes time to make out your taxes for the IRS at the end of the year.
When you think over the last 40 years, when typewriters were commonly used in business, you had to use carbon paper for copies, and whiteout for corrections. Today with the use of a computer, you can automatically go back and make the corrections immediately. One you used whiteout and carbon paper if you made a mistake you have to start over from the beginning, because these were messy, especially if they would document that had to be submitted. Once you havel a document using a computer, then you can automatically have it printed out with a printer and ready to go in less time than it took with typewriter.
These are just a few ways that technology has improved our everyday life and given us more free time so we can complete more projects in a day, then we did without the current technology of today
