Shanice I Love Your Smile From 1991.

I enjoyed singing one of my favourite songs from 1991 from when I was five years old when I was little and at Cullercoats Priory School on the karaoke in Neil’s Art Session today. It came out and was released on the 22nd October 91. I love listening to it on my Airpods headphones when I am out and about walking and on my Sony Headphones my Dad and Bern got me for Christmas when I am also out and about walking too.

Digital Inclusion and Disability: Why we need an intersectional approach

Disabled people are 35% less likely to have essential digital skills for life those with lower incomes, older people, and disabled people are all at a higher risk of being digitally excluded. Yes, anyone can be digitally excluded. Digital exclusion is not the result of one one factor but many:

The design of digital services and how accessible they are for people with different disabilities

How disability and digital inclusion intersects, or overlaps, with other social categories. Such as race, sexuality, gender, social class and more.

‘intersectionality explains how different social categories interact with one another. These interactions produce unique positions of discrimination and/or privilege. For example, a person using a wheelchair may be able to use a website that a person with visual impairment cannot. Another example is that black wheelchair user may experience a unique from of discrimination rooted in both ableism and racism, compared to that of a white wheelchair user. Intersectionality tells us that there is not a a hierarchy of discrimination. Instead, it offers a way to understand how different factors of our identity interests to produce unique experiences’.

Empowering Individuals with Disabilities Through AI Technology

The WHO estimates that more than 2.5 billion disabled people will need one or more assistive technologies in 2030. Yet almost a billion of them can’t access these products. Considering how globalisation is increasing. This means we are denying an entire community from enjoying the same services as everyone else.

Park View project have embraced AL at the level of everyday usage incorporating form filling, document creation, accessibility support, communication. This ensures we can respond appropriately to those with physical, and sensory challenges.

We are aware of the dangers of data protection and constantly raise this with the Digital Hub Network to ensure our voice is head. Like everything else, more needs to happen to make sure AI is a force for good.