Tips to make your smartphone easier to use

Join our free webinar, Tips to make your smartphone easier to use, with our expert AbilityNet Digital Skills trainer, Caroline Martin, and AbilityNet's Head of Digital Inclusion, Robin Christopherson, who will share suggestions for tweaking your phone's settings to make it work better to meet your individual needs.

Aimed at older people and some of the issues they may commonly face, in the webinar we'll discuss topics including:

• Advice about where to find step-by-step instructions for how to adapt your phone, computer or tablet to meet your needs
• How to adapt your smartphone if you have tremors and other dexterity difficulties
• Top tips for adapting and using your smartphone if you have arthritis 
• Apple device accessibility settings

All registrants will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't attend on the broadcast date.

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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.

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Everyone who registers will receive the recording, slides and transcript after the event, so do sign up even if you can't attend on the broadcast date.

Q&A

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

Meet your trainers

Caroline Martin, BT Digital Skills Trainer 

Caroline shares her digital expertise providing digital skills training to older people and disabled adults in the Glasgow area. She previously worked in Glasgow Libraries delivering introductory digital skills courses and providing support for MS Office courses. 

Prior to AbilityNet, Caroline worked at Momentum where she supported disabled adults to use assistive technology to access computers and develop Internet and MS Office skills.

Robin Christopherson, MBE

Robin is Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet and a leading light in the global community of accessibility and digital inclusion specialists. 

Robin's experience of sight-loss gives him a first-hand experience of the power of digital tech to transform people's lives - and he loves nothing more than showing people how he uses computers, the internet, his phone, Amazon Alexa and many other technologies as part of his daily life.

It has also made him a passionate and powerful advocate for accessibility, inclusive design and digital inclusion, making the case for social and technical changes to business, government, third sector, universities and many other organisations.

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