Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
Digital transformation holds enormous promise, but only if it is inclusive by design. Persons with disabilities continue to face significant barriers in accessing and benefiting from digital technologies, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
The Toolbox for the Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities is a practical response to this challenge. It brings together experience and insights from multiple projects and experts in the field, including experts with lived experience.
Its purpose is to equip development cooperation actors including planners, implementers, policymakers, and partners with concrete guidance and tools to design and implement inclusive digital measures within their projects.
The Toolbox offers the following:
- A Practical Framework for Digital Inclusion that helps to recognise gaps and opportunities, identify practical steps and foster collaboration on digital disability inclusion.
- Approaches responding to the framework that are human-rights-based, intersectional, and practice-oriented.
- 8 case studies and 5 project examples illustrating inclusive digital transformation in practice across diverse contexts and sectors.
- 3 experts’ insights combining lived and professional expertise to provide in-depth reflections, actionable guidance, and examples of driving digital inclusion.
- 7 hands-on tools and 5 practical resources offering guides, checklists, templates, and topic overviews that help project teams make digital development more inclusive.
Accessing the Toolbox
To ensure that everyone can use the toolbox, we offer it in two accessible formats. You can choose between a fully accessible version and an interactive version. Both contain the same content and are equally valuable — the only difference is that some interactive features have been reduced in the fully accessible version to provide a smooth experience for screen-reader users..
Access the fully accessible version of the Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities Toolbox
Access the Interactive version of the Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities Toolbox