For a significant number of disabled people computer technology and the Internet holds the keys to those choices. To demonstrate to employers and the public that IT and the Internet are tools for equality in the workplace. To work with the computer industry to show them that everyone can benefit when access for people with disabilities is considered in product design. To identify shortfalls in the general provision of computer equipment, software and services on the information super highway for people with disabilities and then initiate projects to correct and overcome such situations. To encourage the active involvement of people with disabilities in the workings of Ability, and seek their feedback and support so that they can have a direct input into decisions which affect them.
Ability understands that, despite the daunting task many disabled persons and disabled groups etc.
Ability's Web Site offering a powerful search engine and has an indexed system of thousands of pages giving information and providing hundreds of thousands of links covering most subjects on the Internet, in a format that will help overcome most problems faced by the disabled user and making it incredibly simple to be transparently connected to the relevant sites around the world. The Ability team have develop it's own Interactive CD ROM version of it's web site's thus letting users try ability's web site's offline and when ready Interact with the site. Ability BBS our bulletin board System offers has been offering access to information and files for over ten years. Ability Into Print our DTP project was set up some nine years ago. Ability's History Ability Into Print was formed in the 1990's after the then Bishop of Gloucester in the UK recommended Ken Davies to a local company to undertake it's charity work it undertook DTP and offer a faxing services.