Our journey navigating the technosphere
Pop quiz! If I mention the phrase “assistive technology” what’s the first thing you think of? For me the answer would be a screen reader which nicely illustrates a point Ben Cubbon made in a previous article on this blog, Accessibility at OVO [https://tech.ovoenergy.com/accessibility-at-ovo/]: “oft…
Thomas Jeatt
Background OVO's vision is to "power human progress with clean and affordable energy for everyone". This means striving to build our digital products so that people of all abilities can use them. This year we celebrated our Accessibility Community of Interest’s 1st birthday [https://tech.ovoenergy.c…
Ben Cubbon
What is accessibility? Accessibility is about ensuring that everyone, regardless of their abilities, can use the digital products we build. This is important because 1 in 5 people in the UK have a disability [https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/disability/articles…
Ben Cubbon