Second Life Accessibility

Wilde Cunningham is an avatar controlled by a group of nine adults with cerebral palsy (and their nurse) at the day-care programme they attend in Massachusetts. The group members are aged 30 to 70 and comprise four men and five women. Most of them are wheelchair users and rely on their carers for almost all aspects of their daily lives. Yet in Second Life they have built their own houses, have pets, gardens, even a baseball field. They also have many close friends and a large social network. “Second Life gives me the chance to be the person I feel I was born to be,” says John S, 32, one of the group. “Being in Second Life is how I imagine an innocent man who had been locked up wrongly feels when he is finally set free. In Second Life I get to call the shots.”

Read more at http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article1557980.ece

A good video about Wilde Cunnigham is available at http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3547970n&channel

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