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print-disabled

print-disabled adjective: disabled in such a way as to be effectively unable to read print material, whether due to blindness, dyslexia, or another disability.

Adjective

print-disabled (comparative more print-disabled, superlative most print-disabled)

  1. Disabled in such a way as to be effectively unable to read print material, whether due to blindness, dyslexia, or another disability.
    • Recording for the Blind’s Texas Unit has been helping blind, dyslexic, and otherwise print-disabled Texans since 1973.1991 November, advertisement in Texas Monthly, Volume 19 Number 11, Emmis Communications, ISSN 0148-7736, page 214
    • What emerged in March of 1993 was a report of “The Print Access Project,” which discussed the recent history and future technological options for providing access to print materials, newspapers in particular, for what has now become an accepted terminology: print-disabled people. The implication of...
    • […] However, the Times, like so many other information-bearing Web sites, errs in a few small but critical ways in how they design their Web site, resulting in a frustrating experience for print-disabled people who use personal computers.2001, Larry Goldberg, “Universal Design in Film and Media”, chapter 67 of Wolfgang F. E. Preiser and Elaine Ostroff (editors), Universal Design Handbook, McGraw-Hill Professional, section 67.3

Forms of print-disabled

comparativemore print-disabled
superlativemost print-disabled
alternative formprint disabled

Origin of print-disabled

Coined by George Kerscher in 1988–1989.

Questions about print-disabled

What does print-disabled mean?
Print-disabled means disabled in such a way as to be effectively unable to read print material, whether due to blindness, dyslexia, or another disability.
What part of speech is print-disabled?
Print-disabled is an adjective.

Words near print-disabled in the dictionary

  1. print shop
  2. print shops
  3. print up
  4. print wheel
  5. print wheels
  6. print-disabled
  7. print-friendly
  8. print-off
  9. print-offs
  10. print-on-demand
  11. print-out

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