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Cover of winter 2012 issue

Go ON Gold's race online

Ability is backing a major campaign to help four million disabled people in the UK go online for the first time. Go ON Gold, fronted by Paralympics star Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and co-chaired by the government’s digital champion Martha Lane-Fox, aims to persuade the 43% of disabled people who have never been on the net that it is worth a try.

You can get involved by donating some of your time to help someone use computers, smartphones and other digital technologies. Go ON Gold is also looking for organisations to promote its campaign messages and support its work programmes.  

 

 

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Comments about Ability

I appreciate how proactive the UK is in assistive technology and often refer to the models I see in your magazine when thinking of our inclusion programs in the US. We are a litigation-based society over here and I try my best to help alleviate that, just a little bit, in my school district.  Many thanks! Tina Schwartz, AT Practitioner.

An informative publication. It looks good on screen as an e-Book too. Peter Bryenton, New College Worcester

You certainly put a lot of information into this magazine, which is useful to read. Helen Morrissey, Diversity Advisor, HM Customs and Excise

Our new look ebook

We have been working with digital inclusion expert Ted Page of DIG Inclusion to produce a more inclusive PDF version of Ability. 

We have changed our page colours, introduced tags, made it easier to navigate the magazine and improved the structure of each page. Ted has also written a feature on how improve the accessibility of your PDFs.

Try our new format by clicking here and do let us know how you find it. If you like the new look ebook, you can subscribe by using this link. 

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