GHION.AI explores how to build accessibility into technology from the start, not as an afterthought. The speakers discuss self-driving cars and on-demand transport as case studies, examining what it takes to make these services work for people with disabilities.
So I just want to take a step back.
So we'd moved over, I'd moved over from London to San Francisco, but also just here.
Now I wanted to take the time to think about why this area is actually really important and why I think.
Many sort of future entrepreneurs in this room today.
It's something really valuable to think about. So firstly, it's a well reported statistic.
From the World Health Organization that a billion people in the world have a.
Disability of some kind. Now there's many different types of disabilities across a broad spectrum, but I think.
If we just sort of hold on.
There and think about that statistic, that.
Is a huge number of people and.
Often a massively untapped audience that many.
Companies, organizations don't often think about.
Now for those of you who have.
Worked in accessibility before on sort of.
The tech side, I'd ask sort of what comes to mind when you think about tech and accessibility.
And I imagine a lot of it.
Is things like digital accessibility compliance and does it comply with W3C standards and is it AA or lots of kind of well established and very vital compliance.
And accessibility measures to make sure that.
A website is digitally accessible. However.
As the online and offline worlds.
Are converging, we need to think about how accessibility can be baked when technology is facilitating the use of a real world product. And so I have some examples here. Whether it be a self driving car or an Alexa Echo device, or home.
Automation, or even on demand transport like.
Uber, how are all these products and services going to be usable for people.
With disabilities when maybe even the foundational fundamental product itself may not have been.
Built for accessibility in mind, but when those products and services are becoming so.
Vital and important, how do we make sure people can actually use them? And for me, so the anecdote I.
Share, even though things are much better.
Now, when I first moved from London to San Francisco, one of my biggest.
Struggles was the fact there was no transportation.
So at the time Uber and Lyft.
Did not provide any accessible vehicles and as part of, as part of their service and so it was literally impossible to get a taxi of any kind around San Francisco. Luckily now, fortunately, things have changed and.
There is a lot more service. But when I first got to San.
Francisco, I was completely, I felt completely stranded because I couldn't use the same transport services that everybody else could use.
And so that poses the question, when offline and online converge and how do we ensure accessibility? And I think it's a really important.
But also a very complex question that sits at the intersection of technology policy.
Product development, design, and has a lot.
Of really complex societal questions that we collectively need to think about.
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