Digital Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities – ICT Access and Equality
This is KICTANet’s work on Digital Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities. We are working directly with Persons with Disabilities towards influencing their access to ICTs as well as their lived experiences and their input towards ICT policy.
Some outputs form the program
Program Partners
Digital Accessibility
Since 2022, this Digital Accessibility program addresses all accessibility issues for Persons With Disabilities, the aged, and anyone affected by Accessibility challenges.
Are We Missing The Point in How We Define Disability?
By Nicodemus Nyakundi As a KICTNet ICT Accessibility and Equality for persons with disabilities fellow and a beneficiary of the three-day Disability Reporting Training by the Internews in Nairobi, my interest was captured by day one’s lesson that focused on the...
My First Time at The IGF: International travel Is OK Even if You are Hard of Hearing
By Florence A. Ouma Feedback to the IGF Host and the Multistakeholder Advisory Group I have always wondered what it would be like to travel internationally as someone with a hearing impairment. My concern has always been whether the passport control and security...
Online Disinformation and Its Gendered Element
By Nicodemus Nyakundi Online disinformation is propagated by simply clicking on the share button. The intent is to mislead and daint the image and reputation of the victim. Its target is to spread and reach a vast majority of the targeted audience. Although it...
Physical Accessibility at the Internet Governance Forum 2022
By Judy Okite The Government of Ethiopia hosted the 17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF) between 28 November to 2 December 2022 in Addis Ababa under the overarching theme Resilient Internet for a Shared Sustainable and Common Future. I arrived early Monday morning to...
You are More Vulnerable to Digital Marginalization than You Think
By Florence A. Ouma I tried to guess the odds of anyone reading this article identifying as a “vulnerable person.” You probably think you do not fit the definition of a vulnerable person right now. Let’s see if that changes when you finish reading this article. One...
ICTs Assistive Technologies for Invisible Disabilities
By Nicodemus Nyakundi When we talk about PWDs, we usually refer to what we can see, such as physical disability, visual disability, and so on. However, there are invisible disabilities. Disabilities that are not so easy to detect and therefore are mostly overlooked...
