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LIST OF TABLES<br />

Table Number Page<br />

1.1 Summary of contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

2.1 Senses of the word “bank” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

2.2 Summary of traits common to reading disabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />

3.1 AT recommendations from leading RD/LD websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49<br />

3.2 List of technologies recommended by RD/LD websites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />

3.3 Summary of literature search on the ACM Digital Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

3.4 Descriptions of the labels applied to the RD + LD search results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

3.5 Occurrence of labels among the ACM search results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />

4.1 King’s essential factors for assistive technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />

4.2 Descriptions <strong>and</strong> findings from AT adoptiion studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76<br />

6.1 Direct <strong>and</strong> indirect stakeholders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101<br />

6.2 Descriptions of themes found in the literature review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />

6.3 Definitions of values found in the literature review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

6.4 Frequencies of the mapping between themes <strong>and</strong> values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107<br />

7.1 Descriptions of the three threads included in the illustrative case study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />

7.2 Key participants in the “A Call for Help” thread . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138<br />

7.3 Key participants in the “College Writing Instructors Discuss Disability” thread . . . . . . . . 141<br />

7.4 Key participants in the “Dyslexia, Macs, <strong>and</strong> a Controversial Documentary” thread . . . . . . 145<br />

8.1 Semi-structured interview questions for life stories study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160<br />

8.2 Ordering of the value prompts for life stories study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161<br />

8.3 Overview of participants in the life stories of adults with RDs study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163<br />

9.1 Definitions of values used to review reading technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180<br />

9.2 Summary of value-based reviews of existings reading technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191<br />

10.1 Recommendations for the design of reading widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196<br />

11.1 Examples of Calico reading tools unrelated to reading disabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211<br />

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