iTunes — my assistive technology

I talked about this a few years ago in an article I co-authored with Richard Wanderman and Monika Koethnig: Digital Independence, bur I think it is so cool that it warrants repeating.

iTunes is a major piece of assistive technology for me. I don’t do well with handling CDs. I used to have a 200 disk CD changer, but there was no way to quickly and easily play a particular CD or song. But, with iTunes, I have “ripped” all of my CDs and now have them on my hard drive.

Combine that with the iTunes music store and and streaming radio, and my stereo has been relegated to being a pair of powered speakers for my computer..