Expert Resources: assistive technology
These are the items that relate to assistive technology found on the AbilityNet website. They may be factsheets, webinars, news stories, blog posts or reports.
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Freya Robinson | 14 Apr 2023In the latest AbilityNet Podcast Mark Walker (AbilityNet) and Giles Rhys Jones (what3words) discuss the story behind what3words, how what3words has been used across the world, and how winning a Tech4Good Award impacted the company.
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Freya Robinson | 13 Apr 2023AbilityNet’s Tech4Good Awards are back, celebrating people and organisations across the globe who are using digital tech to make the world a better, more accessible place. Find out more and enter now!
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Annie Mannion | 23 Mar 2023This free webinar from the 25th April 2023, included guest speakers from the MS Society and AbilityNet to discuss how to make adjustments to digital devices including smartphones and laptops to help with multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Robin Christopherson | 16 Feb 2023Artificial intelligent chatbots are rapidly taking over the internet. AbilityNet's Head of Digital Inclusion, Robin Christopherson shares his experience with Chat GPT and discusses its possible impact on disabled people.
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Guest Blogger | 15 Feb 2023Colin Hughes, a former BBC producer, discusses the Android beta research app that aims to help people with non-standard speech communicate more easily with others and with the Google Assistant.
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Clive Gilbert | 12 Jan 2023From the first-ever disabled astronaut and lots of voice activation news to Elon Musk's Twitter takeover - 2022 was certainly an eventful year! Clive Gilbert reviews the barriers and highlights we've shared through dispATches over the past 12 months.
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Clive Gilbert | 12 Jan 2023Assistive tech and accessibility updates from Clive Gilbert, freelance research consultant and specialist writer in public policy, social affairs and technology.
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Clive Gilbert | 28 Nov 2022Clive Gilbert, freelance research consultant and specialist writer in public policy, social affairs and technology takes a deep dive into Matter and its potential to enrich disabled people's experience of assistive technology.
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Clive Gilbert | 28 Nov 2022Assistive tech and accessibility updates from Clive Gilbert, freelance research consultant and specialist writer in public policy, social affairs and technology.
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Kelly Chan | 28 Oct 2022This Halloween, AbilityNet's Principal Accessibility Consultant, Joe Chidzik, covers six common web accessibility issues and provides useful solutions to help banish these accessibility horrors.