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  • Helpful tech tips: My Computer My Way

    Alex.Barker | 28 Jan 2022
    Are you wondering where you can get tech help for FREE? Look no further than AbilityNet’s recently updated tool, My Computer My Way (MCMW).The tool helps anyone to make a device easier to use, which is critical to our mission to create a digital world accessible to all.So, what is MCMW? And how do...

  • Presenting on tech at the Moebius conference 2020

    Alex.Barker | 21 Jul 2020
    As the Covid pandemic continues the way that we get information has changed radically. Conferences that were going to be held in hotels and conference centres were held online. AbilityNet's Alex Barker presented in an online conference last week

  • How AbilityNet's volunteers can help you

    Alex.Barker | 28 May 2020
    It's Volunteer's Week this week and in 2020 the opportunity to say 'thank you' to the 20 million people who volunteer each year has never seemed more important. 

  • How to find local support using the internet during COVID-19

    Alex.Barker | 14 Apr 2020
    How to find local support using the internet. Here's what we learned during our FREE webinar as part of our response to COVID-19

  • 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!

  • Training content should be accessible to all

    Alex.Barker | 16 Jan 2020
    AbilityNet provides a selection of top tips for adjustments that can help create an accessible workplace.

  • MP speaks about his acute dyslexia

    Alex.Barker | 29 Oct 2019
    With all the goings on in Westminster recently you can be forgiven for not having noticed the Tweet from Labour MP for Hove and Portslade Peter Kyle about having acute dyslexia. In the post which has been retweeted over 3,000 times Peter explains how having acute dyslexia has made his life as an MP...

  • AbilityNet joins stroke conference

    Alex.Barker | 28 Oct 2019
    According to the Stroke Association, there are 1.2 million Stroke Survivors in the UK. AbilityNet have been lucky enough to attend events and meet people who have living lives after stroke.

  • How to choose a computer for your accessibility needs

    Alex.Barker | 22 Aug 2019
    The AbilityNet Helpline's Alex Barker shares his top tips for choosing the right computer for older people and disabled people

  • Using mobile phones if you have MND

    Alex.Barker | 20 Jun 2019
    Friday June 21st marks Motor Neuron Disease Awareness Day and we take a look at how technology might help someone who has MND and might be struggling to use a mobile phone.A diagnosis of a condition such as MND is life changing and there are probably a million and one things to consider. One of the...
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