ABSTRACT
Technology is a feature of modern existence designed to make our lives and daily tasks easier. Why then do we devalue the adjustments people with disability make or the technologies they use as weak or special? Assistive technologies are stigmatized in ways that technologies used by people without disability are not. While people with disability may regard the accommodations or the assistive and adaptive technologies they use as an ordinary part of life, as non-disabled people would a kettle, washing machine or even computer, the technologies used by people with disability are stigmatized. Further, people with disability are often treated as helpless or dependent for using them (Wendell, 1996: 30).
