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  1. Describing a member of the US armed forces and derived from the term “Galvanized Iron” after the letters “GI” that were stamped on USA Army metal trash cans.

  2. Many of these do very good work in disability and attempts at universal access. The author both supports and respects their work and as such realise it would be very unfair to single out any individual organization.

  3. 2Be it graphical, audible, or textual.

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Harper, S. Is there design-for-all?. Univ Access Inf Soc 6, 111–113 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-007-0071-2

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