-
Claudia.Cahalane | 28 Nov 2018
Ahead of the Accessibility Champions professional practice workshop at TechShare Pro, London, Emma Pratt-Richens, senior accessibility specialist at the BBC talks to AbilityNet about how the BBC is growing its network of accessibility champions.
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 05 Nov 2018
Jennifer Harley is the University of Law’s teacher of the year 2018. As the University’s disability support service manager, she is responsible for ensuring that the students needing additional help feel welcome and supported at the university’s campuses. Here she shares some best practice on...
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 24 Oct 2018
How can disabled students get the right help from their university and how do they know if their uni is inclusive. Ian Carter, manager of student services at Brighton University, home to 24,000 students, has helped us put together some advice. He is vice chair of the NADP - the professional...
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 05 Oct 2018
AbilityNet’s accessibility and disability consultant Raphael Clegg-Vinell challenged delegates at the London Chapter of World Interaction Design Day last month to think about inclusive design differently.
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 01 Oct 2018
From moving modules online, to offering pre-term familiarisation stays with students on the autism spectrum, to enabling students with anxiety to do recorded presentations, Ian Carter, a student services manager at Brighton Unversity shares his knowledge and experience on what makes an inclusive...
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 23 Aug 2018
Every year AbilityNet gives a Tech4Good Special Award to someone truly inspirational who captures the spirit of Tech4Good. This year, the award has been given to social media phenomenon 17-year-old Lewis Hine from Portsmouth. Three years ago he set up Friend Finder Official to help reduce isolation...
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 03 Aug 2018
An award-winning app that is transforming the lives of blind and visually impaired people across the planet is set to boost customer services in the public and private sector. Be My Eyes is used by almost 100,000 blind people in 150 countries around the world – connecting them with a network of 1.5...
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 05 Jul 2018
Tech4Good Accessibility Award finalist waytoB, founded by two students, has integrated a smartphone and smartwatch platform to help people with a learning disability navigate their environment more independently.
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 05 Jul 2018
Microsoft’s Seeing AI app, which audibly explains for blind user what it sees in front a phone camera, has users in completing more than seven million tasks and has been downloaded by 200,000 users.
-
Claudia.Cahalane | 04 Jul 2018
New technologies for people with sight loss and those who are blind are a key theme in the finals of the AbilityNet Tech4Good Accessibility Award this year.