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  • Top tips for supporting your employees with dyslexia

    Robin Christopherson | 14 Dec 2021
    Discriminating against your employees with dyslexia has been against the law since the first disability discrimination legislation was introduced over 20 years ago. But it's in the news today as a result of Starbucks employee Meseret Kumulchew winning her disability discrimination case.

  • How to embed inclusive design in your organisation - and why it's good for business

    Robin Christopherson | 23 Nov 2021
    AbilityNet’s Head of Digital Inclusion, Robin Christopherson MBE takes a deep dive into the business case for accessibility and how to do it right within companies large and small. 

  • Amazon’s new Echo Show 10: Bigger and even better

    Robin Christopherson | 07 Jul 2021
    Amazon recently added to their growing family of ‘Echo Show’ products with an updated version of their 10” model. The big, bright 10” screen displays information such as weather, recipes, Wikipedia articles and photos, and here Robin Christopherson shares more about the update.

  • AbilityNet expert on BBC Radio 4's In Touch technology special

    Robin Christopherson | 19 May 2021
    Robin Christopherson MBE shares his expertise and experience on the consumer affairs radio programme for people with sight loss.

  • What is WCAG, and why does it matter? On This Day

    Robin Christopherson | 04 May 2021
    Version 1.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) launched on May 6, 1999. We review how they've impacted digital accessibility and why?W3C publishes the WCAG - one of the reasons they've become the de facto world standards for all things web (and soon mobile) and why they've proved to...

  • Zoom now offers automatic subtitles, on request, for free accounts

    Robin Christopherson | 21 Apr 2021
    The hugely popular video conferencing and calling platform, Zoom, will be providing automatic 'closed captioning' (subtitling) for all free accounts in the autumn - but individuals can request early access by filling out a simple form.

  • Is your public sector app prepared for the final deadline?

    Robin Christopherson | 19 Apr 2021
    Learn what you need to do to meet the 22 June Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations deadline relating to mobile applications.

  • International Telecommunication Union publishes report on state of ICT accessibility in Europe

    Robin Christopherson | 01 Apr 2021
    My thoughts from Accessible Europe event at the end of March 2021.

  • On its 32nd birthday we ask “is the web accessible to all?”

    Robin Christopherson | 11 Mar 2021
    On the anniversary of its birth, we ask “is the web accessible to all?”The “power of the web is in its universality,” said Tim Berners-Lee, who submitted the original proposal that would ultimately become the worldwide web on 12 March 1989. Thirty-two years later AbilityNet's Head of Digital...

  • Microsoft Narrator turns 21; we celebrate a coming of age

    Robin Christopherson | 17 Feb 2021
    Robin Christopherson, AbilityNet's Head of Digital Inclusion celebrates Narrator screen reader's coming of ageWindows built-in screen reader, Narrator, made its debut as part of Windows 2000 today (17 February 2000). After a clunky start, it blossomed into a viable option for blind PC users.
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