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A view from James Fox: Making the digital world work better for kids on Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Global Accessibility Awareness Day feels the right time to highlight just how integral accessible online experiences are for young people.

By James Fox
The CBeebies Playtime Island app has changed. It’s not the end of the world, but it feels that way.
My son, Finnley, has social communication disorder (SCD). It’s similar to autistic spectrum disorder, in that he can find change to routine distressing. The Playtime Island update came overnight, and while other kids would have loved it, it was a nightmare for my son. He could no longer use the thing he’d grown to love and understand.
There was no warning, no cha


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