Disability and Tech: Can we combine them for a more inclusive world?
summary
Companies build concrete tools: a Montreal startup is developing a smart treated glove that detects and prevents dangerous drops in hand blood flow and targets a 2025 pilot, while a smart clothing product called overlay adjusts prosthetic sockets to reduce pain. Worldwide stats are blunt: 16% of people live with disabilities and four in five use no visible assistive device, creating a billion people with invisible needs. Social tools include Be My Eyes with about 7 million volunteers and the crowdmapped AccessNow used in multi‑town map‑missions.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:02Speaker’s background
- 4:43About Totem Tech
- 6:11Definition of technology
- 8:03Understanding disability
- 10:15Social model of disability
- 11:40Portrait of disabilities
- 13:29Global disability statistics
- 15:18Disability and technology
- 17:00Accessibility and inclusive design
- 18:27Mismatch book insights
- 20:58Types of barriers
- 22:03Accessibility tech initiatives
- 23:59Totem Tech product demo
- 24:22Overlay by Kinova
- 25:29Be My Eyes app
- 27:12AccessNow platform
- 28:16Map Mission day
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