Chris has been working for the last decade, based partly on his own lived experience as a blind person, to identify how the telecoms and related industries can build a more inclusive future by including Accessibility and Inclusive Design criteria into the product development, web and app cycle from scratch.
Chris also works with Monica Paolini on the Inclusively webinar series where industry stakeholders present how they are building a more inclusive business both internally with their workforces but also through their customer experience and product offerings for the consumer and business markets.
Insights on Accessibility
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The Six Million Dollar man 40 years on. Wearables, Smartphones, 3D printing. Cost to you <$100k!
As a teenager in the 1970s I loved Steve Austin, the astronaut who crashed and was rebuilt. Remember the tag line “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology, the capability to make the world’s first Bionic man”! It captured my imagination and has come to the front of my thinking now as I…
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What tech is out there for disabled people?
Recent interview with Telefonica about accessibility technology available today and in the future. I’m not the one in the bow tie…. Lewis Insight Interview with Telefonica
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You’re blind: How do you ‘read’, join in social media and find your way around, let alone run a business?
Picture the scene: a blind man walking down the street moving white stick to and fro. He is muttering to himself while clicking a small black thing in his left hand. What is he doing? Actually, he is running his business, doing email, messaging, reading documents, checking-in for his flight and working out the best…
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Big Screen, Small Screen, No Screen – Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired
At the recent Vision UK 2020 conference, stakeholders in the eye-care sector pulled together a Tech Table to demonstrate the breadth and depth of current and emerging technology available to the visually impaired (VI). In the mainstream telecoms market, people talk about Big Screen (television) to Small Screen (smart phone) as a continuum of devices…
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Accessibility At The Top Table At Mobile World Congress 2015
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week accessibility took to one of the main stages. IBM, Microsoft, Google and the Mobile Manufacturers Forum (MMF) joined me to present perspectives on how accessibility is going mainstream. I introduced the session with some of the key findings from the second Telefonica accessibility report “Digitising the Billion…
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Telefonica publishes Lewis Insight Report on Accessible Technology for Mobile World Congress
Digitising the Disabled Billion – Accessibility Gets Personal 2015 is released today to coincide with the start of Mobile World Congress 2015. #MWC15 This is the second in a series of white papers looking at disability and the role that accessible technology and services can play in bringing the ‘Billion’ into the digital world. Chris…