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Marking ten years of work for blind Zimbabweans, disability-led NGO Gateway to Elation launched an Accessible Digital Civic Participation project in Bulawayo in September 2026 to make government information and everyday platforms usable with screen readers.
On 2 September 2026, marking its tenth anniversary in Bulawayo, disability-led Zimbabwean NGO Gateway to Elation launched the Accessible Digital Civic Participation for Blind Communities project, targeting government and civic websites and platforms not built to work with screen readers.
Founder Robert Malunda framed the goal as moving blind Zimbabweans from mere access to technology toward active participation in civic life, with technology 'designed from the beginning with different users in mind' rather than retrofitted afterward.
Gateway to Elation, founded in 2016, previously won the US$25,000 Holman Prize from LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in 2021, using the funds to deliver computer, orientation-and-mobility and social-skills training to blind Zimbabweans in rural areas.
As a project launched in September 2026, the Accessible Digital Civic Participation initiative itself has no published outcome data yet — no participant counts, platform-compatibility audits or evaluation exist so far.
The project is run by an organisation with a decade of continuous operation and an internationally vetted prior grant, rather than being a first-time or one-off effort, which is a meaningful institutional-continuity signal even though the new project itself is unevaluated.
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