Disability Innovation: Citizen-led design that’s giving people more independence
Disability Innovations is a blog series that gathers some of the most interesting new products and services that aim to make disabled people’s lives easier. We hope it will inspire more innovation in...
View ArticleVirgin Media Business’s VOOM: vote for your favourite disability product pitch
VOOM is a competition from Virgin Media Business giving businesses and professions the chance to pitch for a £250,000 ad campaign and £50,000 in cash! Vote for your favourite pitches before voting...
View Article#HackOnWheels – Help us build the wheelchairs of the future
Help disrupt disability! #HackOnWheels is the movement to inspire a community of wheelchair users, hackers, designers and makers to create the world’s first open source, fully customisable wheelchair....
View ArticleStaying in mainstream education with a visual impairment
A guest blog from Lucy Driver, a visually impaired student that decided to stay in mainstream education. She knows the benefits and disadvantages of access to education outside of specialist education...
View ArticleWildlife photographer shares his top ten snaps
This story is part of 30 Under 30. Oliver Hellowell is a young nature and wildlife photographer who happens to have Down’s syndrome. This Nature Photography Day, Oliver tells us what photography...
View ArticleTech4Good awards: inclusion means everyone’s a winner
The Tech4Good awards were created by the charity AbilityNet with the help of BT to highlight the empowering influence of digital technology – whether it’s at home, at work, in education. There were...
View ArticleVisit our new online technology hub – in partnership with AbilityNet
Technology is transforming the lives of disabled people. We are working with tech experts from AbilityNet to highlight some of the software and equipment that can make life easier, more productive and...
View Article2017 AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards
Now in its seventh year, the AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards is one of the most inspiring events of the year. It shows the incredible capacity of technology to improve all our lives. There were over 200...
View ArticleDon’t focus on my impairment, ask me what I can bring to the role
After graduating from university, Lauren embarked on a long and difficult journey to find a job. In support of our new campaign, Work With Me, she spoke to us about the barriers she faced and gives...
View Article“This is how assistive technology is helping me live the life I choose”
A keen campaigner and writer, Raisa uses lots of different assistive technology to help her do day to day tasks. Here, she writes about some of these pieces of technology and how they help her live the...
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