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Magazine articles of special interest to people with disabilities.

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InternetNews October 22, 2007 Susan Kuchinskas	CAPTCHAs For Social Good? The Soylent Grid project aims to channel Internet users' efforts to help the visually impaired with image recognition.
Job Journal October 7, 2007 Rich Heintz	Clearing the Way for Co-workers with Disabilities Ninety-seven percent of employers who have hired someone with a disability would do it again, and here's why.
InternetNews October 3, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Target.com Faces Class Action Suit Over Accessibility What steps should e-commerce store owners take to ensure their site's accessibility to the blind?
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Erik Sofge	DARPA's Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like Prosthetic In a first for prosthetics, a new mechanical arm gives its user the sense of touch.
Bank Technology News May 2007 Rebecca Sausner	Security: When Lock Downs Lock Out The Blind Banks and vendors are working to make online tools secure and usable for the visually impaired.
TIME Europe May 17, 2007 Jumana Farouky	He's Got Rhythm Derek Paravicini, who lives in a boarding school for the blind where he receives round-the-clock care, is one of a handful of recognized savants, unable to carry out the most basic everyday tasks, but a bona fide genius at the keyboard.
TIME Europe April 18, 2007 Theunis Bates	Signs of Progress The University of Bristol's Center for Deaf Studies in England has developed the first-ever video dictionary for mobile phones.
InternetNews March 22, 2007 David Needle	IBM Makes Software, Web, Accessibility Push Research finds accessibility rarely included in computer science curriculum. IBM announced an initiative to give teachers wider access to learning material about assistive technologies.
This Old House Mary Jo Peterson	A Bath to Grow Old With Bathroom design features for meeting the demands of the aging.
Inc. February 2007 John Grossmann	Anna Bradley Picks a Fight She was broke, alone, and physically devastated - and then she picked up on a little-remarked federal requirement called Section 508. With that, Anna Bradley had both a calling and a pioneering business.
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