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Empowering persons with disabilities with decision-support technology

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A new software system allows users with disabilities, and their potential employers, to make informed choices about job opportunities and the impact those decisions may have on current and future benefits.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 47, Issue 9
      End-user development: tools that empower users to create their own software solutions
      September 2004
      85 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/1015864
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      Published: 01 September 2004
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