This article concerns the history of the curb cut metaphor as applied to personal computer technology in the 1980s. Disability advocates used the metaphor to argue the necessity for accessibility features on computers to enable greater access. To accomplish this goal, these advocates utilized a complex comparison between personal computers and sidewalk ramps to combat assumptions about who the intended computer user was and to argue for how people with different abilities could operate the same technology.

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路边切割和计算机：在 1980 年代倡导设计平等

本文涉及 1980 年代应用于个人计算机技术的路边切割比喻的历史。残疾倡导者使用这个比喻来论证计算机上的无障碍功能的必要性，以实现更大的访问。为了实现这一目标，这些倡导者利用个人计算机和人行道坡道之间的复杂比较来对抗有关计算机用户是谁的假设，并争论具有不同能力的人如何操作相同的技术。