Go ON Gold

online access for disabled people

June 2013

Guide Dogs is latest national charity to join campaign

Submitted 21 June, 2013 - 14:31
Guide dog in its harness

The iconic charity Guide Dogs has become the latest partner to join the Go ON Gold Campaign. The organisation is the world's largest breeder and trainer of working dogs and has helped more than 29,000 people achieve life-changing independence since it was founded in 1931.

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013, By Its Founders

Submitted 21 June, 2013 - 13:58
Global Accessibility Awareness Day Logo

Earlier this year, 9 May marked the second Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an event that aims to encourage people who design, develop and build websites to think about the accessibility of their web pages for disabled computer users.

Disability Still A Major Factor In UK Digital Divide

Submitted 21 June, 2013 - 13:58
Hands on a keyboard

UK adults with a disability are three times less likely to have used the internet than those without a disability, a report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown.

The figures in the latest Internet Access Quarterly Update show that at the first quarter of 2013, there were 3.7 million disabled adults – as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act – who had never used the internet, representing 32% of all adults in the UK with a disability.

Erik Weihenmayer: Scaling the Heights of Possibility

Submitted 12 June, 2013 - 20:54
 Erik Weihenmayer kayaking

Erik Weihenmayer has climbed Mount Everest and descended Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe, skiing to base camp. Now he is preparing to ride the rapids of the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River in a kayak. Extreme challenges, but for Weihenmayer, the level of difficulty is different: he is blind, after contracting retinoschisis at the age of three.

Professional association of librarians joins our national campaign

Submitted 12 June, 2013 - 20:48
John Dolan

Libraries have a vital role to play in promoting digital inclusion in the community by offering free or cheap supported access to computers and the internet, so Go ON Gold is delighted to welcome the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP) as one of the campaign’s latest partners.