Bar chart:
X-axis is 10 categories of AT products: 1) mobility, 2) orthotics/prosthetics,
3) aids to daily living, 4) communication, 5) sensory, 6) computers, 7) environmental,
8) recreation, 9) modified furniture, 10) architectural.
Y-axis is percentages ranging from 0 to 25, labeled only in 5 percent increments,
allowing only approximate percentages to be reported.
Each product category
has three corresponding bars, which indicate the percentage of companies
in each of three categories of willingness to seek new technologies.
The categories are: 1) actively seeking new technologies, 2) not actively
seeking but willing to consider, and 3) not interested in seeking new technologies.
Approximate percentages of companies in each category of willingness by product
type are as follows:
Mobility: actively seeking technologies 17%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 22%
not interested in seeking new technologies 22%
Orthotics/Prosthetics: actively
seeking technologies 13%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 10%
not interested in seeking new technologies 18%
Aids to Daily Living: actively
seeking technologies 12%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 15%
not interested in seeking new technologies 11%
Communication: actively seeking
technologies 11%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 15%
not interested in seeking new technologies 11%
Sensory: actively seeking
technologies 8%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 9%
not interested in seeking new technologies 11%
Computers: actively seeking
technologies 8%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 9%
not interested in seeking new technologies 8%
Environmental: actively seeking
technologies 6%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 3%
not interested in seeking new technologies 7%
Recreation: actively seeking
technologies 7%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 8%
not interested in seeking new technologies 6%
Modified Furniture: actively
seeking technologies 5%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 6%
not interested in seeking new technologies 4%
Architectural: actively seeking
technologies 8%
not actively seeking but willing to consider 0%
not interested in seeking new technologies 2%