FreedomTech CHAT - Community Hub for Accessible Technology

About

CHAT is a community-driven by people who share a passion and believe in the transformative effect that assistive technology has on individual’s lives.CHAT is run by FreedomTech, a collaboration between DFI and Enable Ireland.The aim of CHAT is to facilitate and create opportunities amongst people to learn from each other in an atmosphere that supports equality, collective and individual sharing. This makes the most of people’s expertise to better identify challenges, gaps and to consider solutions regarding AT.Chat has a national membership of over 200 people and organisations. This includes people with disabilities (expert and non-expert AT users), AT practitioners, researchers, educators, service providers, developers, suppliers and other interested parties.Each CHAT gathering is hosted by different member organisations. To date, gatherings have been hosted by the Deaf Village, Enable Ireland, University College Dublin Access Centre and The National Council of the Blind in Ireland, St. John of God and Childvision. As such, gatherings are co-created by those involved and as participants share knowledge, we are all thinking together and working horizontally across and beyond the disability sector.