Doing Digital Inclusion: Disability handbook
This handbook outlines some of those barriers, and offers advice and resources, for those already delivering digital skills who would like to better support disabled people, and to disability support organisations wishing to offer digital inclusion activities for the first time.
Key findings
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25% of disabled adults have never used the internet
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46.7% of disabled people are employed
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23% of disabled people say they are quite or very lonely on a typical day
There are around 11.9 million disabled people in the UK, many of whom face barriers to getting online, meaning specialist knowledge and tools can be required to help them access all the benefits the internet has to offer.
This handbook outlines some of those barriers and offers advice and resources for those already delivering digital skills who would like to better support disabled people, and disability support organisations wishing to offer digital inclusion activities for the first time.