Disability Rights
This 1990 law prohibits discrimination based on disability in the US.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
This physicist with ALS used a computer to speak and studied black holes.
Stephen Hawking
This technology allows people who can't use stairs to move between building floors.
Elevators/lifts
Disability Pride Month is celebrated in this month each year.
July
This Deaf actress won an Oscar in 1987 for "Children of a Lesser God."
Marlee Matlin
This TV feature displays dialogue as text on screen.
Closed captions/subtitles
The ADA requires buildings to have these walkways at curbs.
Curb Cut / Ramp
This author and activist became a leading voice for disability rights in the early 1900s.
Helen Keller
This assistive writing system uses raised dots that can be read by touch.
Braille
This 26-day protest in 1977 fought for disability civil rights regulations.
Section 504 Sit-in
Blind singer-songwriter who wrote "Superstition" and "Isn't She Lovely."
Stevie Wonder
This software reads digital text aloud from computers and phones.
Screen readers / Text-to-Speech
This movement advocates that disabled people should control decisions about their own lives.
Independent Living Movement
President who used a wheelchair and led the US through WWII.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
This technology converts speech to text for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Speech-to-text/voice recognition/live transcription