“Barriers exist not in the person, but in the physical, social, and digital environment. People with disabilities and their communities succeed when the community decides to dismantle digital, attitudinal, and physical barriers”, writes Haben Girma, a human rights lawyer and the first deaf-blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA, USA). Girma often uses a BrailleNote computer. “If the person I am communicating with knows written English and can type, that's what we'll do. The person types on a wireless keyboard that outputs to a braille display. I read as the person types…Depending on the person's abilities, I may use sign language, type text, voice in another language, or work with an interpreter.”

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