SecondLife è la mia sedia a rotelle [video]

Secondlife per i disabili

Sl è la mia sedia a rotelle. Testimonianze.

Una sedia a rotelle dà a chi ha una mobilità limitata nel camminare, ma possiede diverse abilità nel mondo reale, la possibilità di uscire, agire, ed essere parte integrante delal società.

A causa della natura della mia disabilità la sedia a rotelle è insufficiente.

Tuttavia Secondlife mi permette di intraprendere azioni senza abbandonare l'ambiente protetto di casa mia dove ho un sistema ergonomico adatto alla mia disabilità.

Dalla mia computer-sedia, io posso insegnare, condurre un affare, avere una vita sociale attiva, ed essere parte integrante della società.

A wheelchair gives someone with limited mobility to walk, but otherwise functional in the real world, the ability to go out and do things and be a functional member of the community. Because of the nature of my disabilities, a wheelchair is insufficient. However, SL permits me to do things without leaving the protected environment of my home where I have an ergonomic setup that allows for my disabilities.
From my computer chair, I can teach, run a business, have an active social life, and be a functioning member of a community.

Second Life is my wheelchair.
- Seshat Czeret, 18/09/2008

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There’s all sorts of talk about accessibility, particularly around making computers, the Internet, and online services like Second Life accessible to those who are differently abled. From the chaps in Japan, with their innovative solutions that allow folks with very minimal physical capabilities to use Second Life, to the Imprudence team and Jacek Antonelli - just one of a number of groups looking to improve the accessibility of Second Life clients. Then there’s accessibility specialists who look at Second Life from a legal view (current US law, Section 508 of the Disabilities Act), and thus investigate the content of Second Life. There’s so much focus on how it might be accomplished.

Si fa un gran parlare su accessibilità, particolarmente rispetto a rendere i computers, Internet, e tutti i servizi online come Second Life accessibili a chi è diversamente abile.

Da quei tizi in Giappone con le loro soluzioni innovative che permetteranno alle gente con facoltà fisiche limitatissime e gravi menomazioni di usare SecondLife al team Imprudence ed a jacek Antonelli- appena due tra i gruppiche sta studiando come aumentare l'accessibilità del client di Secondlife. Quindi ci sono gruppi di specialisti in accessibilità che osservano SL da un punto di vista legale (la legge corrente USA, sezione 508 d per la disabilità), e stanno investigando sul contenuto di SL. C'è grande focalizzazione su come si possa attuare tutto ciò.

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In Second Life they are on a equal setting and we don’t see the handicaps.

Being in Second Life is how I imagine an innocent man who had been locked up wrongly feels when he is finally set free. In Second Life I get to call the shots.

Molti di noi, se non tutti, hanno subito dei furti a causa della nostra disabilità;
molti di noi, se non tutti sono stati schiaffeggiati o derisi hanno subito abusi fisicamente

e moltissime volte molti fra noi hsono stati attaccati verbalmente - tanti! e questo ferisce comunque! Abbiamo subito furti in denaro ma soprattutto è sta lesa la nostra dignità, il dolore più grande, la nostra umanità, sensibilità, siamo stati presi in giro e ci è stato sottratto il controllo; altri tengono il controllo delle nostre cose ,delle nostre dceisioni, impongono la loro volontà su di noi; noi non possiamo comprare questo, non possiamo mangiare quest'altro, dobbiamo guardare questo, no non ho tempo adesso, no non puoi andare dove vuoi, no non sarai capace di muoverti per un po'.

most of us, if not all of us, have had things stolen from us, because we were disabled
many of us, if not all of us, have been slapped or abused physically, and several times
all of us have been verbally abused– a lot! which hurts by the way!!
we’ve had our money taken from us
perhaps the greatest pain when our dignity has been taken, stolen.
our humanity, feelings, kicked around and abused
control. people take control. they take control of our things, our decisions. they force their will and preferences upon us. no we cant buy that. no we cant eat that. no we have to watch this. no i dont have time now. no you cant go anywhere. no you will be unable to move for awhile

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That's the money-quote from Seshat Czeret in Feldspar Epstein's piece on disability and accessibility at The Metaverse Journal this week. Really, those five words condense thousands of written words on the empowering properties of a collaborative virtual environment, and not just for the differently-abled, but for the regularly able as well.
It is interesting to note that those with physical limitations and disablements tend to view their own physical bodies as a physical, fleshy avatar far more frequently than those who have no such impairment. To the physically handicapped, the body may not function as it ought, but their minds and persons are as whole and complete as any. Many view their bodies as simply a malfunctioning vehicle, and their step into online avatars in a 3D environment is as slight a transition as getting into a car and driving.
To many such physically impaired users, the body is no more nor less a tool than an online avatar, and the latter (despite lag, occasional inventory loss, network problems and all the other hurly-burly of a virtual environment) is the more reliable, expressive and liberating, allowing more ability to contribute, work, play and socialize.
Why then, do the able-bodied among us tend to see so much more distinction between our bodies in the physical world and our digital representations? Is that distinction merely an artificial one, a handicap brought about by our able-bodied perspective?

"Second Life is my wheelchair" by Tateru Nino Sep 21st 2008 at 6:00PM Filed under: Culture, Second Life, Virtual worlds

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