learners, or have difficulty remembering, or fatigue easily. There are items of assistive technology to accommodate all of these needs.
Alcyan: What are the challenges using a virtual environment?
Gentle: Other than the need to interface the virtual world with whatever assistive technology each person uses with their computer (see above), the challenges are the same for everyone.
Alcyan: Does Second Life break Real Life barriers and can we have some examples of such?
Gentle: I will refer you to this page of our website: http://www.virtualability.org/friends-and-family/
Alcyan: Is there any other virtual environment, similar or not to Second Life, that is user friendly for people with disabilities?
Gentle: Anyone who can use Second Life can use many of the other virtual worlds. Virtual Ability maintains a residential island on InWorldz, called Beacon Bay, for instance.
Alcyan: How does one find Virtual Ability within Second Life?
Gentle: Here is the SLURL to the welcome area at the center of our main public island, Virtual Ability: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Virtual%20Ability/128/128/23
Alcyan: What are your closing comments about VA?
Gentle: Please visit our website ( http://www.virtualability.org ) to find out more about our community and what we do. If you have further questions, please feel free to send them to info@virtualability.org