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How People with Disabilities Use Digital Technology.

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Sophie,

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basketball fan with Down syndrome.

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Hello, I'm Sophie.

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I have Down syndrome.

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I love basketball!

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And I played on my school team,

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and now I work in a stadium.

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At work, we use an app for our team.

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It has a calendar

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with all our practices and games.

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My job is to record scores and stuff like that.

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I can also use it to chat with the coach

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and with the players,

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and we use it to exchange photos and jokes too.

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[chuckles]

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Sometimes, I take longer to read things

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but this app is really easy to use.

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The event or name of the player is at the top,

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so I know where I am in the app.

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The calendar is also very clear.

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It shows the name of the month

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or the number of the week at the top too.

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Other apps we tried are too confusing -

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I could never tell where I am and how to get back.

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The biggest problem is buying tickets for games.

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I try to use this app for buying

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but sometimes

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I have to use other apps to get tickets.

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Some of these apps are too hard.

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When I click on something

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it goes somewhere else

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or opens another page.

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Or, it doesn't have that blue box at the top

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so I don't know where I am

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and how to get back.

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Sometimes it takes too long,

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I have to start all over again.

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It's a real pain.

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I wish buying tickets could be easier.

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My dream is to become a senior assistant.

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I know I can do it.

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Sometimes it's hard

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for me to write long things,

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but I use the spell-checker every time.

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It helps me when coaches use

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words I already know.

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Otherwise, it takes me even

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longer to find the words

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in the dictionary.

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You can help make technology accessible to me.

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Accessibility: It’s about people.

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For more information from the Web Accessibility Initiative

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on how people with Disabilities use Digital Technology,

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visit w3.org/WAI/people