“..Digital technology can be incredibly enabling for many disabled people. But for others, obtaining affordable devices that meet their needs and accessing essential digital services can be difficult or impossible…
This report is an output of a 15 month design research project carried out by the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, in partnership with BT and Scope as part of the BT Better Future Program. It looks at steps that can be taken by commissioners and producers of enabling technology, as well as providers of key digital services, to maximise the enabling potential of digital technology for the 11 million disabled people in the UK. It emphasises the importance of flexibility in the creation of technology used by disabled people, whether hardware, devices or digital services…”
Enabling technology โ making technology work better for disabled peopleย [PDF]