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"The iPad program would not have worked if the school was a strict no-technology zone beforehand, Larkin said. "You can't go from a school that doesn't allow cell phones in the building to handing out 1,000 iPads." Over the past few year"

Representative Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, who wrote recently enacted legislation that will require mobile devices to be more accessible to users with disabilities, said approximately three-fourths of communications and video devices need to be adapted for blind and deaf people. "Apple," he said in a statement, "is an outlier when it comes to devices that are accessible out of the box."