ABSTRACT
Immersion in the technologically rich, highly collaborative environment of the Computer Writing and Research Lab (CWRL) provided an ongoing demonstration of how introducing new communications and information technologies could lead to profound transformations in teaching and learning. By the time the author taught herfirst class in the CWRL’s networked classroom in 1987, she had caught a glimpse of how hypertext, with its radical reduction of writing to just two mutually constitutive elements—nodes and links—could transform writing. Conferences such as Accessing Higher Ground (a small conference that takes place at the University of Colorado-Boulder) and the big Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities generally called CSUN (for its host institution, California State University-Northridge) are excellent places to learn about the disability and accessibility communities. These conferences also offer opportunities to meet and talk with accessibility researchers and practitioners.
