https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86v3e7xlejo What do you think about the Bakerloo line being renamed ‘Bakerl0.0’ for an ad campaign? For lots of disabled and neurodivergent travellers, even tiny changes to signs can throw off a whole journey. Is this fun marketing or just confusing and unnecessary? Curious how it lands…
A recent UN Agency for Digital Technologies (ITU) insight highlights how digital inclusion is now fundamental to wellbeing, independence, and social participation as we grow older. See: https://www.itu.int/hub/2025/10/digital-inclusion-is-key-to-add-life-to-our-older-years/ This isn’t about “helping older people catch up.”…
Google has announced a slew of new accessibility features coming to Android ahead of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Be interested to hear just how usefull these changes are for everyone. https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphones/android-is-getting-a-slew-of-new-accessibility-features-190016358.html
As a Digital Inclusion Outreach Worker with Age UK, I see firsthand how transformative technology can be for older people—but also how many are still being left behind. Through the Digital Champion Programme (running 2022–2026), Age UK recruiting and training volunteers to support older adults in building digital…
Having reached an age where many of my friends have parents with age related mobility issues, it's always sad to see how restricted several have become in their own homes. There are solutions such as having stairlifts or lifts fitted, as well as changing downstairs rooms to a washroom,etc. However, many older people simply…
I found this article that talks about how 38 per cent of local councils across the UK do not offer on-street EV chargepoints that conform with the PAS 1899:2022 accessibility standards. Be interested to hear of anyone has had experienced this and/or what your thoughts are:…
Interested to learn what others thoughts are relative to the notion of their being a disability "community." Community in the sense of "a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common'" would not apply. So, perhaps it could be "a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of…
What does pan stand for anyway?
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