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Stephen Fry supports AbilityNet's Look No Hands! campaign
Our Look No Hands! campaign kicked off in great style this week thanks to Stephen Fry, who tweeted his message of support to his millions of followers and created a surge of interest. He joined Martha Lane Fox and hundreds of AbilityNet supporters in raising money to help disabled people get the most from computers and the internet, by donating £2 without using their hands.
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Look No Hands! Text With Your Toes...
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From Monday May 13th to Friday May 17th we will be asking everyone across the nation to answer one key question: how would you send a text if you couldn’t use your hands?
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Inclusive Design: Free Event, 9 May 2013
AbilityNet is hosting a free event in London to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013. Inclusive Design: Where Accessibility Meets Usability will feature speakers including Robin Christopherson and Julie Howell, followed by a panel that includes Jeremy Keith, Ian Hamilton and Meera Pankhania.
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AbilityNet joins Helplines Association
AbilityNet is pleased to announce that it has become an associate member of The Helplines Association - the membership and good practice organisation for all helplines in the UK and beyond.
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Small charities get easier access to IT support
Most small charities know that they need reliable IT systems but don't know where to turn for high quality, independent advice. Whether they need help with a database or website, have questions about social media or any other aspect of IT, they either don't know who to ask or can't afford the specialist support they need.
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Free webinars: Accessibility for Designers
AbilityNet is the UK's leading expert on digital accessibility working with some of the UK's largest companies to deliver digital content and services that reach every customer on every platform. We also work with a network of over 6,000 IT professionals, who provide IT support to charities and not for profits through our IT4Communities service.
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AbilityNet featured on the BBC
AbilityNet has been featured in an epiosode of Saints and Scroungers, a BBC TV show that highlights the differences between people who are cheating the benefit system and the people who are helping others get the support they need and deserve. The episode was first broadcast in March 2013 and follows Tom Synnott after he is accepted at university, although he fears his Asperger's will hold him back from fulfilling his potential.
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Technology4Good Awards open for entries
Nominations have opened for the third annual Technology4Good Awards, launched at an event at the top of BT Tower. The Awards are open to businesses, public bodies and charities with a base in the UK and are designed to celebrate the hard work of people and organisations who use digital technology to improve the lives of others.
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Martha becomes Baroness Lane-Fox
AbilityNet's Patron Martha Lane-Fox has been made a Baroness, one of two new non-party-political peers recommended by the House of Lords Appointments Commission earlier this week.
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Learn the essentials about digital accessibility
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The AbilityNet helpline needs you...
Fancy helping us to help disabled people?
Every day our busy helpline answers questions about all sorts of technology, from people with every kind of disability. One minute the team will be offering advice about dyslexia, the next we're working out which sort of mouse will help a person with cerebral palsy. We help people of all ages with any disability, working with disabled people themselves but also answering questions from carers, family, friends, parents and professionals.
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Mind the Digital Gap: AbilityNet proposes new digital inclusion strategy
In our increasingly digital self-service economy technology now dominates shopping, entertainment, work and communication, as well as citizenship itself, but age and disability are barring people from full participation. Organisations like AbilityNet, Go ON UK and its disability focused partner, Go ON Gold, are making great strides to close the gap between the computer literate and the technologically disenfranchised, but the gulf is wider than that.
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Stephen Fry supports AbilityNet's Look No Hands! campaign
Look No Hands! Text With Your Toes...
Inclusive Design: Free Event, 9 May 2013
AbilityNet joins Helplines Association
