Free webinar: Travel Made Easy - top apps for seniors on the go

In our free webinar, Travel Made Easy: Top Apps for Seniors on the Go, our expert AbilityNet Digital Skills trainer Mohammed Iltaf highlighted a variety of travel-related apps that can help older people in particular, and inspire you with suggestions for how to improve your travel experiences using your digital devices. Learn about booking transport online, and finding senior-friendly destinations.

Aimed at older people and some of the issues they may commonly face, in the webinar we discussed topics on: 

• Real-time transport updates
• Travel-related accessibility options
• RingGo parking app, and more!

Watch the webinar recording below and download the slides and transcript.

Who will benefit from this webinar?

The session will benefit:

• Older people and disabled adults
• Carers of older people or disabled adults
• Health professionals working with older people or disabled adults
• People interested in tech and digital devices
• Web and Accessibility professionals interested in design and digital considerations for older people and disabled adults

If you work for an organisation that helps older people or disabled adults, this webinar shares useful resources and advice to help your clients.

This session is part of AbilityNet's work with telecommunications company BT Group to help older and digitally excluded people to build online skills and confidence. 

Q&A

This webinar ran for 45 minutes and included an opportunity to pose questions to the speaker. Find out more about our webinars in our FAQs information.

Meet your trainer

Mohammed Iltaf 

Mohammed Iltaf is an AbilityNet BT Digital Skills Trainer on our BT Digital Skills project in the Birmingham area. In addition to volunteering as an AbilityNet Tech Volunteer, Mohammed previously worked within the Mobile Telecom industry and has also tutored students with special education needs.

Slides for this webinar

Download the presentation used in this webinar [PPT]

Transcript for this webinar

Download the transcript for this webinar [DOC]

Do you know an elderly person or a group of older people or disabled adults who want to know more about using digital devices?

Useful links

• Blog: Using technology to help elderly relatives from afar 
• Sign up to the AbilityNet newsletter for more free resources like this webinar!
• Find out about AbilityNet's Digital accessibility services