Key messages

1. The most desirable assistive technologies across all types of disabilities are wearables, AI alerts, robots, and autonomous wheelchairs and vehicles.
2. Other disability-type specific preferences include: AI alerts, location-based alerts, AR, robots, and smart communication aids by persons with intellectual disabilities; automated captions and AI alerts by people with hearing impairments; and lastly accessible navigation systems, robots, and AR solutions by people with visual impairments.
3. Persons with disabilities showed willingness to use digital assistive technologies if: (a) they feel competent to use these technologies, and (b) these technologies respond to their access needs and support their independence.
   The Research recommends that: (a) persons with disabilities are provided with smart technologies; (b) they are assisted to use digital technologies confidently; and (c) they are involved in the process of creating and developing assistive technologies.