Try one thing for Get Online Week 2022

Annie Mannion | 13 Oct 2022

To celebrate Get Online Week coming up from 17 - 23 October we're encouraging people to explore this year's theme: #TryOneThing!

Two women at a desk with one person on the laptopThe one thing we're suggesting you might like to try is to find an event near you via the Get Online Week website.

You might prefer to attend events online or may not be able to attend in person for many reasons.

AbilityNet has some free online events during Get Online Week to help promote digital inclusion:

Digital volunteering in your community:
Free webinar Tuesday 18 October, 2pm BST

For this year’s Get Online Week, we have teamed up with Digital Communities Wales (DCW) to co-host a webinar all about digital volunteering in your community. DCW works to create a more digital inclusive Wales, and AbilityNet charity provides digital inclusion and accessibility advice and support for disabled people, their family and friends, their employers and other people who care for them. 

We have a number of community based digital volunteers in Wales, who have been invited to share their reflections about their digital volunteering experiences.

This session offers you ideas for how to embed digital inclusion within your community or organisation, and help people get online. You may even attend the session and decide to sign up as one of our volunteers!

Register for the volunteering webinar
 

This session will be delivered in English with a Welsh Interpreter.

WELSH VERSION OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE WEBINAR:
Gwirfoddoli Digidol yn eich cymuned gydag AbilityNet
Bydd y sesiwn hon drwy gyfrwng y Saesneg gyda Chyfieithydd ar y pryd.
Ar gyfer Wythnos Ewch Ar-lein eleni, rydym wedi ymuno ag AbilityNet i gyd-gynnal gweminar sy’n trafod gwirfoddoli digidol yn eich cymuned. AbilityNet sef un o elusennau’r DU sy’n darparu cyngor a chymorth ar gynhwysiant a hygyrchedd digidol i bobl anabl, eu teulu a’u ffrindiau, eu cyflogwyr a phobl eraill sy’n gofalu amdanynt. Mae eu cymorth yn canolbwyntio ar hygyrchedd digidol, gwasanaethau’r gweithle a gwasanaethau myfywryr. Mae gan AbilityNet nifer o wirfoddolwyr digidol cymunedol yng Nghymru, sydd wedi’u gwahodd i rannu eu barn am heriau a llwyddiannau gwirfoddoli digidol.

Mae’r sesiwn hon yn eich herio i ystyried sut y byddwch yn ymgorffori’r agenda cynhwysiant digidol yn eich cymuned neu sefydliad i helpu pobl i fynd ar-lein.
·    Cyflwyno'r agenda cynhwysiant digidol. 
·    Cyfle i drafod beth yw bod yn wirfoddolwr Digidol.
·    Cyfle i drafod ffyrdd o gynnwys gwirfoddoli yn eich cymunedau ac i fwrw golwg ar yr adnoddau sydd ar gael i’ch helpu gyda hyn.


Don't Disable Me: How organisational culture and equipment enables inclusion:
Free webinar Tuesday 18 October, 1pm BST

In this session, you'll learn from three experienced accessibility and innovation consultants who also can share their lived experiences of disabilities:

  • Adi Latif, Accessibility Consultant will share his experiences of being blind
  • Ghizzi Dunlop, Digital Accessibility Consultant at AbilityNet and Learning Technologist at the University of the West of England will share her experience with hearing barriers
  • Adam Tweed, Innovation Consultant for Education and Workplace, will share his experience of mental health and the ways adaptations can remove barriers

The focus of this webinar will be learning about the experience of how language, organisational culture, and adaptive equipment can make a huge difference in the removing the barriers in the workplace to the entire workforce, including disabled people.

You will learn about:

  • Language dos or don’ts
  • Organisational culture
  • How to approach employees
  • Reasonable adjustments
  • Equipment to remove barriers
  • Challenges with online platforms

Sign up for Don't Disable Me webinar

Further resources

Blog: 7 reasons to get online in Get Online Week

Blog: Facts and stats about digital exclusion: Get Online Week

How AbilityNet can help

AbilityNet provides a range of free services to help disabled people and older people.

  • Call our free Helpline. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff will discuss any kind of computer problem and do their best to come up with a solution. We're open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 5 pm on 0800 048 7642
  • We have a range of factsheets that talk in detail about technology that might help you, which you can download for free. You may find our factsheets about voice recognition and keyboard alternatives useful.
  • My Computer My Way. A free interactive guide to all the accessibility features built into current desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

AbilityNet accessibility services

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