Access to Tech, Tech to Live
summary
Demonstrates concrete wins and gaps: smart hearing aids with app that push an audiogram update so an external audiologist can restore a device within 48 hours; Apple and Android built‑in features that prompt accessibility at setup; usable examples like pinch‑zoom, reader view and speak screen as a simpler screen reader; data points — about 1 billion people with long‑term disability, 93% of blind people retain some vision, one in four need reading glasses; argues for inclusive manual testing and real users, not tick‑box WCAG checks.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 5:26Usher syndrome
- 7:17Hearing aid evolution 1996 2020
- 19:28but how do blind people
- 30:56In my opinion, checklists do not work
- 34:45How do we think differently?
- 37:54Ageing population
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