Making every document an accessible document
A pretty unbelievable accessibility faux pas this week has marred the solemn occasion of the death of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh for visually impaired people.
The faux pas in question is when rail websites went uniformly greyscale overnight—an appropriate and even touching tribute and mark of commemoration in one way, but in another an …
Anyone who gets at all involved with the fight for accessibility soon learns just how hard we make things for our differently-abled fellow humans—either through sheer negligence or just a lack of care.
For example, guess what: all that pivoting to online learning by Universities has so far left blind students’ needs at the bottom of …
Roger Firman and Susan Day of UKAAF give some insight into accessibility for school-professionals regarding blind and partially sighted students in education:
As teachers what can we do to ensure those in our classrooms have access to our resources? How can we foster independence? How do we prepare students for the next stage of their lives …
The Publisher’s Association works to ensure the value of publishing, and the contribution it makes culturally and to the UK’s economy, is understood.
Part of its important outreach is a set of special publisher communities, made up of members from a particular function who provide specialist and technical advice to councils and staff. A key one …
As we kick start 2021, I wanted to just quickly reach out and offer best wishes to all of our great UKAAF allies and supporters. With 2020 behind us, we’re excited about the prospects for 2021 here at the DAISY Consortium.
If you’re not familiar with DAISY, it’s an international non-profit organisation whose purpose is very …
More than 1 in 3 people recently contacted say they fear deteriorating eyesight due to increasing screen time as a result of pandemic-related #WFH (working from home).
The data comes from new research from Fight for Sight, a UK charity dedicated to preventing sight loss and which points out that someone in the world “goes blind …
2020 has certainly been a year like no other, with the world brought to its knees by a raging pandemic as the search for a vaccine continues apace. Despite all we faced, the year also saw a wide range of UKAAF activities and news which we thought would be worth rounding up in case you …