> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://thevoiceofenablingtechnology.pmbofficial.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Enabling Technology Is for All - URL: https://thevoiceofenablingtechnology.pmbofficial.com/enabling-technology-is-for-all/ - Published: 2026-10-08T02:42:36.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T02:42:36.000Z - Description: Technology can expand what we know and what we imagine. Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown explores human-centered AI in job coaching and her HAIL™ framework: human intelligence + artificial intelligence + innovation = leverage. - Author: Precious “Preciosa” Myers-Brown - Tags: Enabling Technology, Expanding Technology The people we support should never be limited to what we already know. When I talk about enabling technology, I want us to think about our own lives, too. What do you use to help you do something you couldn't do as easily on your own? Where does technology fill a gap in your knowledge or skills? How does it help you do more with the talent you already have? We all have gaps. We all have things we want to do that require some help. For a person with a disability, technology may be necessary to communicate, work, or live with greater independence. That need deserves our attention and investment. And the ability of technology to support us extends to the professionals working alongside that person. Think about a job coach helping someone explore a career. That coach brings knowledge, experience, and relationships to the work. They also bring the limits of what they know. Every one of us does. We may know certain employers, certain jobs, or certain training programs. Those become the possibilities we feel comfortable discussing. But what happens when a person's dream reaches beyond that experience? If the only options we can offer are the ones we already know, the person we support can become limited by our limitations. Their interests may take them somewhere we haven't been. Their talent may fit work we've never considered. They deserve the opportunity to explore it. This is where artificial intelligence can help expand our thinking. A job coach can use a general-purpose AI tool, a large language model, to explore possibilities without starting with expensive, specialized software. The starting point is a conversation with the person about what they want, what they enjoy, what they do well, and where they need support. The person gets to describe their dream before anyone starts deciding how far it can go. With their privacy protected, a coach could give the tool a deidentified description of those interests, skills, goals, and practical challenges. Leave out names, identifying details, diagnoses, and private records. Describe the support needed in general terms. Then ask something like: “Help me explore careers connected to this person's dream, interests, and skills. Don't assume a disability limits what they can learn or achieve. Suggest possibilities we may not have considered and training we can investigate toward their goal. Identify assumptions in your suggestions, including possible bias, and tell me what we need to verify.” I want the coach to be able to look at a response and say, “Wow, I never thought about that.” That moment matters because it gives the human brain something else to work with. It can lead to another question, another conversation with the person, or a closer look at a career path that never made it onto the original list. The coach keeps asking questions. What would the work actually involve? Which skills could the person build? What support could make the training accessible? Does this possibility interest the person, or has the conversation wandered away from what they want? AI can help us explore those questions while we bring our judgment and knowledge of the person to the discussion. Asking an AI tool to avoid bias doesn't guarantee an unbiased answer. It can repeat assumptions or give inaccurate information. A coach still needs to check actual job requirements, training options, and whether opportunities exist. A polished answer is a place to begin investigating. The person's choices stay central throughout that work. This is how I think about HAIL™, a framework I created: human intelligence + artificial intelligence + innovation = leverage. Leverage is a currency that can produce outcomes. The human intelligence includes listening, asking better questions, and recognizing when an answer doesn't fit. Innovation happens when we use what we've learned to consider a different way forward. That combination gives us more to work with as we help someone pursue a meaningful career. Helping bridge the digital divide includes giving people access to tools and the opportunity to learn how to use them. It also means helping professionals see how technology can fill their own gaps. When a coach has more ways to investigate a possibility, the person they support can have more possibilities to consider. We should be willing to stretch our own thinking as far as we're asking someone else to stretch toward a goal. Enabling technology is for all of us. We can use it to strengthen our own abilities and become more useful to the people who count on us. Their dreams deserve room to grow beyond the boundaries of our experience. Technology is an assistant to us. It helps us enhance our ability. Technology is not us.