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AbilityNet

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About Me

Hi Welcome to AbilityNet on My SpaceWe are a UK charity committed to helping people with a disability access and use technology. You can find out a lot motre about us and get advice and support if you are struggling with a machine at• AbilityNet E-learning www.abilitynettraining.org • AbilityNet Website www.abilitynet.org.uk • AbilityNet YouTube www.youtube.com/abilitynet • AbilityNet MySpace www.myspace.com/abilitynet • AbilityNet Wiki www.abilitynet.wetpaint.com • AbilityNet Twitter www.twitter.com/abilitynet Feel free to drop us a line or better still send a donation every little helps !!!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with an interest in IT technology and disabilityAlso anyone who would like to support us through advice, information, volunteering or donations

My Blog

Introduction to Proloquo2Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD_1sdNEwfg
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:17:00 GMT

Ignorant or Pathetic - its hard to choose

I rarely get angry about whats in the press. Its too easy sometimesso best to  just simply take it all with a pinch of salt. But when Iwas sent a link to an article in the Daily Mail I feared the wors...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:41:00 GMT

AbilityNet - Google 10 to the 100th

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JKP05mtfthg Vote for us on the Google 10 to 100 competition
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:07:00 GMT

Low cost and No cost - IT for people with a disability

How can we reduce the cost of assistive technologies. It somehow seems to be wrong that disabled people who may most benefit form being part of the digital world have to pay more than anyone else for ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:01:00 GMT

Size Matters

Ok I got over my rant on angels - it takes me a while but I calm down in the end. Its been a really busy weekend with lots of new stuff to take on. One of the things that really interests me at the mo...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:18:00 GMT

Angels and MySpace

Hope youve caught some of the microblogging weve been doing via twitter - very stream of conciousness - or on a good night stream of unconciousness - or something But I wanted to add a few words on t...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:00:00 GMT

more news and ideas

Its been a while since I wrote so heres an update - 5 days to go to our access IT awards - the shortlist was amazing and judging was very tough - I can only say our winners reflect the immense diversi...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:40:00 GMT

Latest News

Lots going on at the moment - heading for Prague on Sunday with Miscrosoft for a European NGO day on accessibility - should be interesting. Just strated using Twitter for up to the minute activity - s...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:37:00 GMT

Filesharing and Social Concscience

Just written a piece on Filesharing for computing Magazine - Really this one is prompted by the equation by press and often public perception that file sharing =  piracy and therefore all file sh...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:24:00 GMT

Social Networking + Accessibility - loads of press

We launched our enation report on the accessibility of social networking sites and everything went a little loopy. What we found was that none of the major networks offer fully accessible service...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:10:00 GMT