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Jun 10

Access and Inclusion Through Technology

Accessibility, AI and the Fight to Stay Inclusive: What the Past Month Tells Us About the Future

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Jun 9

How AI Could Support the Deinstitutionalisation of People with Disabilities Across the World

Across the globe, many persons with disabilities still live in institutions, segregated facilities, residential care homes, psychiatric…

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May 6

When AI Can’t See You: Facial Recognition and the Hidden Exclusion of Facial Difference

In a world increasingly mediated by artificial intelligence, our faces have become passports. We unlock our phones with them. We verify our…

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Apr 1

Access and Inclusion Through Technology — February 2026

What Shaped Assistive Technology Worldwide in February 2026

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Mar 24

AI Accessibility — Monthly Digest (March 2026)

This monthly digest summarises recent developments in AI accessibility standards, frameworks, policies, legal changes, academic research…

AI Accessibility — Monthly Digest (March 2026)

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Feb 25

Do Plagiarism and AI-Detection Tools discriminate against people with disabilities?

Plagiarism and AI-detection tools have now become part of the underlying structure of both the education and employment systems. They…

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Jan 15

Why the Workday lawsuit matters

Increasingly, it’s artificial intelligence that evaluates, shortlists, and even rejects applicants — often, well before a human being even…

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Dec 13, 2025

The Impact of AI on Assistive and Inclusive Consumer Technologies What It Means for Access…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping the assistive technology landscape. Tools that once relied on fixed rules or specialist…

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Dec 4, 2025

AI Transforming Assistive and Inclusive Technologies

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Sep 24, 2025

Designing Justice: How AI Can Support or Undermine Access for People with Cognitive Disabilities

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly embedded in legal and justice systems, it holds transformative potential to enhance…

David Banes

David Banes

David Banes is an accessible and assistive technology evangelist with a special interest in disruptive innovation and filling the gap from policy to practice

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