Understanding digital accessibility challenges is easy if you know people with disabilities. But what if you’ve never seen a person…
Improving Access To Tech for Persons With Disabilities
Last year, Uganda’s communications regulator commissioned a study to establish the status of access and usage of Information and Communications…
Disability-Themed Emojis Approved For Use
The introduction of dozens of new accessibility-themed emojis has been welcomed by disability rights campaigners. The new characters include hearing…
Farida Bedwei: Ghana’s Disability Rights Advocate Speaks To Africanews
Farida Bedwei suffers from cerebral palsy but her condition has in no way stood between her strides to live life…
Autism Aid App Launched In Accra for Children With Autism
Autism Ambassadors of Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation, led by Ms Alice Mamaga Akosua Amoako, on Friday launched the Autism Aid…
The Inspirational Tech Guru Who’s Owning Cerebral Palsy Like A Boss
(CNN) Disability doesn’t mean disadvantage. And Farida Bedwei, a celebrated software engineer from Ghana, is proof of that. Born in…
Tech Boon For Children As Ghana Puts Autism On The app
The social entrepreneurs behind an app designed to help autistic children learn hope their innovation can change attitudes Good job,…
Disability And The Terminologies
I almost lost my cool when the voice on the other end of the phone used the term “Mentally Retarded”…
Deaf Students In Ghana Learn Coding With Ambition To Become Programmers
A World Bank report themed “Landscape of Jobs in Ghana, “released in 2016 suggests that about 48 per cent of…
