14th Annual Disability Lecture - Innovating Towards a More Inclusive Future

Created:	2017-04-27 15:37
Institution:	Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre
Editors' group:	Editors group for "Accessibility and Disability Resource Centre".
Description:	Can inclusive design principals lead to greater innovation? Saqib Shaikh, a software engineer at Microsoft, has personal experience of how technology has greatly improved his life, as someone who is visually impaired. He will describe research at Microsoft to empower disabled people, and how he believes that innovations for a specialist group can lead to mainstream technologies, and thus create a more inclusive environment. YouTube video with subtitles available - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVC1n02IC9U
Website:	http://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/lecture