Ajay Choksi is learning disabled. He provides technical assistance to students at the Rix
Centre at the University of East London. The centre has developed multimedia technology
that can be used by learning disabled people to compensate for the difficulties that they
have with memory, communication and socialising. Several London boroughs are involved in a
Rix Centre project, called Click Start, a network of wiki websites built by learning
disabled people. This video has more about Ajay’s work, in his own words. Click Start
is a project for young people who have a disability or difficulty. In some London boroughs, they’re
using the wiki website, Click Start. I’m hoping young people with a learning disability,
or other staff members, support teams and other people, will use the software package,
and also use the website, by going online and typing in their login and password. When
I’m using technology I use a computer – a laptop – and also a multimedia software
package to add in sound, video and upload images. Also website tools. I use Microsoft
Office, Paint, Photoshop CS4, and other different programmes, which I love using. I use my smartphone
– my mobile phone. I use my phone to click on a QR code, which links to my website. When
I see it, I click on it and think: ‘Ah, there’s my website!’ When I click another
code to open it, I think: ‘Ah, there it is! There’s my website open, there’s my
wiki website.’ And that’s it, and then I look at it play and then I test the screen.
It will work on a wireless connection to the wiki website. You can create a website. They
are not using an older website, they are making it easy to build a wiki website, and also,
they’re making it to show to everyone. My message is: you can do it and you can create
your own easy-build website, and also, my future is – I got married – and my wife
and family support me, and I will show them I can go out independently, and travel everywhere
in
the country now.