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my name's David Woodbridge and I work as an assistive technology consultant at Vision Australia about 10 years ago I used to carry about eight different devices around such things as light detection till the lights are on and off nowadays I've got all those different products in one device that I can use every day the best thing about the iPhone and the watch that makes them work is they've got accessibility built into them particularly for voiceover because I can touch the screen or I can flick my finger left and right you move Island by iTunes and then once I've heard the item that I want to use I can do it one finger double tap anywhere on the screen and I'll activate the last item that just spoke to me one of the main things to do with travel particularly of trains is binding out what platform the trains leaving off and rather than trying to find somebody to ask if I use an app like trip view I can find out what time the train is and what platform it's leaving off what platform the trains just arrived on I know the station I can tell where the stairs though and get off the station properly when you go shopping where you want to go and grab a cup of coffee and you've got a couple of notes in your pocket being able to just quickly get at your iPhone run an app like the money reader identification app find out where your denominations are on your pocket before you go and buy a coffee make things a lot more streamlined technology in general allows me to be more independent because the apps that I use allow me to do everyday things everybody else for do it's just that I use technology to do it soon as you say to somebody its accessibility it's like I don't I don't need that I'm not one of those people type things why build in accessibility to any product at any time anybody's life Suffolk will cause you to have some issues getting around or getting access to information the same for somebody who has has got that particular condition if you want to put it that way all the time universal access from Universal Design is a better way of saying accessibility because the accessibility sounds like it's for a small minority of people where'd you say it's universally designed for everybody to go on it's fantastic what does it do you