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• Categorized in Culture

  The future is disabled

  We need to take steps toward a more inclusive future—one that we all can inhabit.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  How tactile graphics can help end image poverty

  Access to rich imagery shouldn’t be something that blind or low-vision people have to do without. These projects are helping.
• Categorized in Climate change and energy

  How climate vulnerability and the digital divide are linked

  Monica Sanders’s Undivide Project is documenting overlapping issues in underserved communities in the US.
• Categorized in Culture

  The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility. What happened?

  For people who can’t speak, there has been depressingly little innovation in technology that helps them communicate.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  The new US border wall is an app

  Since January, CBP One has been intended to make immigration at the southern border more orderly, but it has thrown up obstacles for some of the people most in need of protection.
• Categorized in Culture

  How sounds can turn us on to the wonders of the universe

  Astronomy is leading the way in making science more accessible through sonification—and the results sound amazing.