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Go ON Gold. Online access for disabled people.
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Karen Darke, Handcyclist in the British Paralympic team
for London 2012, takes a break from her training
to talk to Go ON Gold.
Basically, everywhere I go I have my laptop and my iPhone
with me, and probably spend a lot of my time on them.
Technology can offer so much, an ability to stay in touch
with people, to know what’s going on, to find out information
at the press of a button. It’s just so fantastic that you can
wonder something, whether it’s an historical fact or
something you need to know, and at one click of a button
just find it all out.
So it opens up a whole new world to you but
at the same time there are times when it can be frustrating
and I feel like throwing all the technology into the river
and never seeing it again! [laughing]
I suppose when you live in a world where you use
technology so much, and it’s so important that it
pretty much drives everything I do,
or a lot of the things I do.
I can’t imagine not using technology, and all the ways
of communicating with people and you remember
that actually there’s a lot of people out there
who don’t use it and it’s not part of their everyday life.
I guess in some ways it’s making me think that
I am a bit of a digital champion for my Dad,
who really wants to get online and really wants to be able to
do things that way, but he’s just so not used to it,
and finds it frustrating and then I find it frustrating
sometimes when I’m working with him, helping him.
And now he books tickets,
and he books all sorts of things online.
And it’s really great to see because a few years ago
he was like ‘hang on, let me write this down...
turn - computer - on, press…’
you know, he wrote down every single instruction,
but now he just goes and does stuff.
I think it’s a great thing to help someone
access all that information and technology.
The campaign is supported by NominetTrust
Making change happen.
Go ON Gold is a campaign to help disabled people
get online and access digital technologies
that are essential to modern life
whether you’re an individual or an organisation
we can help you, and we need your help.
To find out more about how to get online,
help others get online,
or ensure your own digital services are accessible
please visit our website at www.go-on-gold.co.uk
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