Oct 15, 2020Inclusive Futures: Three ConversationsSummary of my keynote delivered at iPad Accessibility Summit, South Africa, October 2020. Conversation #1 Inclusion: The Universal and The Individual A couple of years ago I had the privilege of visiting a public library that had a reputation for being a beacon of forward thinking accessibility. I went on…Inclusion7 min readInclusion7 min read
May 15, 2019Shortcuts for Accessibility (#GAAD)Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD). Every GAAD I like to focus on new innovative solutions that make accessibility more personal and more intuitive across our devices. In this article I’ll be talking about one of these, Shortcuts for iOS. You can find Shortcuts on your iPhone or…Apple2 min readApple2 min read
Apr 1, 2019Assistive Technologies, Active Participation: Riding Bicycles for the MindEvery year the United Nations sets a theme for World Autism Awareness Day. The theme for this year is ‘Assistive Technologies, Active Participation’. At first, the definition of the term assistive technologies might seem quite obvious — you might think of technology like a hearing aid to support someone with…Education6 min readEducation6 min read
Dec 20, 20182019 — The Year of ThinkingAs the year comes to an end, I am starting to see a lot of messages coming through the inbox and social media lines making predictions about what 2019 will deliver us. …Philosophy7 min readPhilosophy7 min read
Dec 14, 2018Universal Learning in DubaiI have just returned from a week in Dubai, presenting at a summit on accessibility and inclusion. I was fortunate to be invited to present the closing keynote on both days of the summit, as well as to collaboratively deliver practical workshops across the event. Undoubtedly the most enriching part…Education7 min readEducation7 min read
Jun 20, 2018The New Digital OrganicFlowers are restful to look at, they have neither emotions nor conflicts, wrote Sigmund Freud around the turn of last century. Two days ago I played a new game that I learned about on Twitter, called Blossom, created by Ken Wong of Mountains Games, previously lead designer of the wonderful…Virtual Reality8 min readVirtual Reality8 min read
May 7, 2018At The Heart of it All: Smart Cities and our Human PotentialsAt the heart of this think piece is a reminder to myself. I attended an event recently on smart city initiatives. The event gave me pause to consider the scope of imagination that we employ for these occasions — it reminded me that we must not be afraid of dreaming…Smart Cities4 min readSmart Cities4 min read
Mar 17, 2018The Future of AccessibilityLast week I gave a talk at a Newcastle Futurist meet-up on the ‘Future of Accessibility’. The brief for the talk was to review the current state of the field of accessibility, to then consider where accessibility might be heading in the next few years, and then to make a…Accessibility16 min readAccessibility16 min read
Sep 3, 2017Autism + Coding + Music in SingaporeI have just returned from a big week of work in Singapore — I was fortunate to have been invited to present workshops to individuals on the autism spectrum, their families, educators, service providers, therapists, psychologists, and members of the Singapore Ministry of Education, across a broad range of focus…Autism7 min readAutism7 min read
Aug 4, 2017ARKit and Autism: New FuturesIn September the new operating system for mobile Apple devices, iOS 11, will likely be released, and with its release will come a new world of apps that build on the new development platform that Apple has created, ARKit, which puts unprecedented opportunities to develop augmented reality solutions in the…Autism16 min readAutism16 min read
