An Internet for AllWeb Sight by Arati Bechtel an article in the Camarillo Star, explains how the Internet's claim that everyone can use the Internet is wrong in many ways. It is much more difficult for people with mental or physical disabilities to get the same access and effectiveness from the Internet as someone who is completely healthy. The internet is 99% visual and it would be extremely difficult for someone who is visually impaired to use the internet. Arati Bechtel explains in her article some of the research done on Internet accessibility for the blind and says that there is new software for the blind that has been made with a better design to help them use the Internet differently from the old way of using the brail. An example of these programs is called Jaws Screen Reader, it is a program that takes text and reads it aloud to the user. This allows a blind person to log in and listen to their email or hear some information they may be looking for. But these programs are not enough and are not even developed enough to be used effectively by disabled people. Bechtel says more needs to be done so that the Internet can be used by everyone. Howard Rheingold's theory on the Internet in his article The Heart of the WELL is that by accessing the WELL, everyone can find a place there to receive support or use it as a parenting community. Whatever path you choose to take, everyone will always find a place to feel comfortable in a community and find support from other people. (Rheingold 154) Describes how he and others in one community had an ongoing conversation with the father of an ill girl, and with the support of WELL, the woman was able to recover from her Figueroa 2 illness and make a full recovery . He also described how a parent could have a question about their child's health and gain information more quickly by logging into WELL and asking users, then calling a doctor directly. (Rheingold 151) Another use of the WELL was to help each other on different parenting techniques helping parents become better mothers and fathers around the world.
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