The aim of this article is to examine disabled people’s experience of social exclusion and how this correlates to the digital divide within the United Kingdom. Previous studies examining this area have applied a qualitative perspective to conceptualise the relationship between disabling barriers and new forms of technology (Roulstone 1998, 2007; Goggin and Newell 2003; Sheldon 2004; Harris 2010; Watling 2011). This study endeavours to examine the digital divide using a quantitative methodology, based upon an evaluation of digital inclusion in the city of Sunderland. The article examines the relationship between disabled people’s engagement with digital technologies and how digital exclusion might construct new forms of disabling barriers. In doing so this will discover whether disabledJ. Macdonald and John Claytonpeople are less likely to engage in new forms of technology compared with the general (non-impaired) population in socially excluded neighbourhoods.