accessibility

Techonomy Lab: The United States of Data

Data is transforming not only our institutions, but out relationship to them. It's also transforming out relationship to each other. Access to data and its interpretation will inform our notions of injustice, inequality, fear, want,...

Gary Rieschel on Tech Accessibility

Gary Rieschel of Qiming Venture Partners, speaks at Techonomy 2016.

Text-to-Speech Reads to the Blind, But What More Can Tech Do?

Back in the 1970s, before a personal computer was on every desk or lap and a smartphone in every pocket, blind people read printed material—books, newspapers, bills—with reading machines. Harvey Lauer at the Blind Rehabilitation...

ITU President Hamadoun Touré on Internet Access as a Human Right

In this video from Techonomy 2011 in Tucson, Ariz., Forbes editor Randall Lane talks to Hamadoun Touré, Secretary General of the International Telecommuniation Union, about why it was important for the Union to establish access...