Expert Resources: AI


These are the items that relate to AI found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.

  • Robot helpers tackling social isolation

    Alex.Barker | 04 Mar 2020
    Robots are now not just sci fi fantasy. They are real....and they are here to help you!

  • How 12 organisations are using AI for good

    Guerman Botten | 19 Feb 2020
    Microsoft's AI for Good programme uses tech to boost environmental sustainability, accessibility, humanitarian action and cultural heritage. 

  • How AI could become a new, accessible extension of your mind

    Robin.Christopherson | 13 Feb 2020
    Virtual assistants like Alexa and Siri are now part of our everyday lives. It’s as natural to talk to a device and receive a spoken (or on-screen) nugget of info, as it is to whip out our phone to check the weather, Google that thing or listen to music. A new project from the clever guys at MIT (...

  • Ethics, Machine Learning and Disabilities

    Adam Tweed | 12 Dec 2019
    Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and the potential for the emergence of (unintended) bias towards disabled people was the topic of discussion at the Techshare Pro 2019 panel on “Ethics, Machine Learning and Disabilities” which was chaired by AbilityNet’s Abi James and included...

  • AI is making CAPTCHA increasingly cruel for disabled users

    Robin.Christopherson | 20 Feb 2019
    A CAPTCHA, (an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart"), is a test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. You've all seen those distorted codes or image-selection challenges that you need to pass to sign up for a site or buy...

  • GOV.UK and Alexa: Government keen to hear the voice of the people

    Robin.Christopherson | 28 Aug 2018
    Smartspeaker ownership is growing rapidly. Already up 3% in 2018 to date, ownership of voice-activated speakers now stands at 8% of the adult UK population - with voice searches more generally also rising rapidly. The GOV.UK team have been working hard at bringing their information available online...

  • 5 ways AI could transform digital accessibility

    Joe Chidzik | 26 Mar 2018
    AbilityNet’s senior accessibility and usability consultant Joe Chidzik explores five ways AI could help make websites more accessible to people with disabilities

  • Speaking of the future: Robin Christopherson at BDF Technology Taskforce

    Mark Walker | 26 Feb 2018
    Robin Christopherson will be speaking about the role of Alexa and other smartspeakers at the BDF Technology Taskforce in London on 27 Feb 2018.

  • How Image Recognition and AI is Transforming the Lives of Blind People

    Claudia.Cahalane | 20 Dec 2017
    AI-powered image recognition is taking off and it's helping blind people gain a better understanding of the world around them. At the AbilityNet technology and disability event last month, TechShare Pro, we heard from Orcam, the makers of AI vision tech MyEye who've recently launched MyEye 2.0.

  • Five top tips for building accessible conversational interfaces

    Claudia.Cahalane | 18 Dec 2017
    The latest advances in Artificial Intelligence are powering ever-greater voice-recognition capabilities - but how do we build machines we can to talk in ways that are intelligible and sensible to a range of people, including those with disabilities, asks Léonie Watson’s at TechShare Pro.