The annual Zero Project Conference has become a unique global meeting place to innovate for disability inclusion. This year, more than 1,000 people from 100 countries attended #ZeroCon24 at the United Nations Office in Vienna, with innovations and sessions centred around the topics of Inclusive Education, and ICT.
Access Tech Live attended the event and have provided many interesting interviews. In this interview, Steven Scott and Marc Aflalo discuss AccesSOS with Gabrielle Wong.
Accessing emergency services is simply a phone call for many of us, however when you are Deaf, how do you make the call? And when you do, how is your call prioritised compared to others? This interview highlights the lack pf equity right now and how AccesSOS is bringing more equity to accessing emergency services.
Wong shares her personal story and explains the fragmented and prioritized nature of emergency access in the United States. She discusses the challenges faced by the deaf community and the limitations of video relay services.
