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Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
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Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
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Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
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Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
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Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
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Several nations around the world have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) since 2008. Ratifying states commit that national law will guarantee rights enumerated in the CRPD. The use of Assistive Technology (AT) in ensuring the social inclusion of people with disabilities is specifically mentioned in the convention. Although AT is increasingly seen as necessary in facilitating functional equity in social and economic participation, most AT and accessibility tools are not just expensive but are also and typically designed for use by people in industrialized nations. The practical implication of the CRPD's impact on AT for the developing world is a vast subject, in this paper we examine the cost of AT for people with vision impairments at current day costs, and find that the functional fulfillment of the CRPD for a lot of the signatory countries would be extremely difficult without significant technological innovation and market expansion in this space.