This photographic montage shows four participants with a variety of upper limb mobility impairments use and evaluate the AccessScope workstation. These participants are a sample of the seven mobility-impaired tested so far (see Table 1). A. exhibits a wheelchair user with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. He possesses fine motor skills to turn knobs and push buttons of a microscope but his reach and strength are limited. Positioning the joystick, mouse, and keyboard in close proximity allowed him to control all microscope features. B. A participant with polio using a scooter can maneuver underneath the workstation table that has obstruction-free table legs. The height of the table can be automatically adjusted using a toggle switch. C. An individual with severe dermal scarring preferred to reposition the input devices to better accommodate her abilities. The upward projection of the microscope eyepieces in addition to the distance between the eyepieces and tabletop made ocular viewing difficult from a wheelchair or scooter. D. A quadriplegic participant from a spinal cord injury has gross motor skills but lacked fine dexterity. He was proficient at using the joystick and a mouse and keyboard to control the AccessScope software. He also employed AT software for one-handed typing.
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