As Labour’s election pledge suggests, digital technology is no longer seen as a luxury. Rolling out broadband for all has been likened to the great Victorian projects to provide clean water, or the building of the electricity national grid. For disabled people especially, technology can be a great liberator. All my life it has played a major role in giving me independence. I was born with muscular dystrophy, which causes severe muscle weakness in all my limbs rendering me quadriplegic and in a wheelchair. Yet by adopting the rapidly developing digital technology I have seen over my life time, I have been able to go from a small village in west Wales, first to university in Scotland, then a long career at the BBC. Currently, my personal campaign is to highlight the case for as many physical...