Heather Lyons is a bright and funny 24 year old from Belfast. Her real passions in life are books, Dr Who and WWF wrestling. She is also visually impaired because of a medical condition, Laurence-Moon-Bardet Biedl, which has made her a vocal campaigner for more affordable accessible technology.

Heather, who just recently got a Facebook account, says access to technology let’s her "be part of the gang". Without it, she feels "the odd one out."

"Technology will be here for ever and ever, I get that," she says. "But it needs to be accessible, because otherwise, if you’re partially sighted, if you get confused, you are up the creek without a paddle. And you are dependent. I want to be independent." Heather has been getting to grips with computers at Cedar Foundation for the past three years, a Northern Ireland based Voluntary Organisation.  She says "it has opened up the world of computers to me." She can now operate a laptop mostly independently.

“My wish for the future is to own my own laptop with JAWS [accessibility tool] and internet access. This would mean that I could ‘surf the net’ in my own time and be able to look up what I want, when I want.”