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Modes of usability for people with disabilities
Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments to be usable by disabled people. The concept of accessible design and practice of accessible developments ensures both "direct access" and "indirect access" meaning compatibility with a person's assistive technology. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AccessibilityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Chromatin accessibility profiling by ATAC-seqInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Letters to a young poetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The interpretation of protein structures: Estimation of static accessibilityCited 5,058 times
- Go sideways: Computer accessibilityA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Inclusive recreationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.
Noun Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The interpretation of protein structures: Estimation of static accessibility
ATAC‐seq: A Method for Assaying Chromatin Accessibility Genome‐Wide
How Accessibility Shapes Land Use
Accessibility evaluation of land-use and transport strategies: review and research directions
Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals principles of regulatory variation
Epitaxial Growth of Highly Luminescent CdSe/CdS Core/Shell Nanocrystals with Photostability and Electronic Accessibility
The role of site accessibility in microRNA target recognition
chromVAR: inferring transcription-factor-associated accessibility from single-cell epigenomic data
🆕 Influential since 2022
Chromatin accessibility profiling by ATAC-seq
Spatial profiling of chromatin accessibility in mouse and human tissues
Designing the metaverse: A study on inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility and safety for digital immersive environments
Toward SALib 2.0: Advancing the accessibility and interpretability of global sensitivity analyses
A Comprehensive Review on Exploring the Impact of Telemedicine on Healthcare Accessibility
📚 Books worth reading
Letters to a young poetRainer Maria Rilke · 1656
The Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1900Arthur Quiller-Couch · 1900
The Mystery at Lilac InnLeslie McFarlane · 1930
Kirchliche DogmatikKarl Barth · 1900
Consider PhlebasIain Banks · 1987
Polar bears past bedtimeMary Pope Osborne · 1998
The player of gamesIain Banks · 1988
IBM PC ApprenticeInc. Wordware Pub., Leonard Paul Kubiak · 1984
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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