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Bridging the disability divide

The notion that emerging technologies weren’t built for the disabled community is slowly changing, with more tech firms developing core assistive technologies to break down digital and physical divides.

18 November 2020

As South Africa commemorates National Disability Rights Awareness Month from 3 November to 3 December, addressing the extreme digital disparities and access to assistive technologies among the disabled communities has become even more relevant.

The global crisis brought on by Covid-19 has pushed the world further into the digital era. And, as more people make the shift from physical to online services, many socioeconomic factors still play a key role in the marginalisation of the disabled community, which already uses the internet and other innovative technologies at significantly lower levels than the rest of the population.

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