Disability and ICT in institutions of higher learning: Values and options for persons with disabilities

Abstract

The topic for this paper presents both a challenge and an opportunity for Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) wishing to enter the digital world. It is a challenge because the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) options available to PWDs are rare in such an LDC as Uganda; and it is an opportunity because knowing how many options exist will sort out this problem. Disability and ICT is becoming an issue now because many PWDs are making it to institutions of higher learning and ICT has become embedded in everyday life and is progressively becoming indispensable in public, business, personal efficiency or even in improvement of livelihoods (Baguma, 2008).