Technology &
People with Disability – The ‘Great Equaliser’ or Deepening Inequalities?
Patric Phelan
16 | The Brief
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echnology empowers us to live more connected and productive lives; it is fundamental for communication, independent living and participation in community life. This is particularly the case for the almost one in five Australians with disability, for whom technology is often an enabling right – a right which facilitates the realisation of other human rights. It is essential that people with disability can access technology on an equal basis with others, in order to see other fundamental freedoms (such as the rights to work, education, and freedom of expression) protected. This has never been clearer than today, in the midst of a global pandemic which shifted the worlds of work, study and the arts online virtually overnight. Ed.3 2020
