It was our pleasure to get Stacy Scott on to the February UKAAF webinar. Stacy is Accessibility Manager at leading international book and specialist professional journals publisher Taylor & Francis. As a blind Maths graduate, she has deep insight into the challenges faced by learners with a print disability. She is well-known for her strong …
As you will hopefully know by now, UKAAF’s making a useful monthly online discussion a part of our resource for both members and the public. To mark World Braille Day last month (January 4th–as if you didn’t know!), Roger conducted a great 25-minute chat with Stuart Lawler from Northampton-based Sight and Sound Technology (please watch …
From the start of 2022, blind and partially sighted UK breakfast cereal shoppers are in for a bit of a welcome surprise: at last, they’ll easily get nutrition and other information from their Kellogg’s Coco Pops via a technology that’s come to the fore during the pandemic, but which many of them have historically struggled …
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), when the world is invited to get everyone “talking, thinking and learning” about digital access and inclusion.
Once you know that GAAD is all about the more than 1 billion people who are living with some form of disability or impairment, you will see why. The idea of the …
With less than a week left to go, the clock is ticking down fast to a very important date for UKAAF and anyone who supports its mission: Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).
Set for Thursday, May 20th, 2021, GAAD’s stated mission is to get everyone “talking, thinking and learning” about digital access and inclusion, and the …
Back at the start of the year, we were busy promoting UKAAF’s upcoming Annual General Meeting but ‘you know what’ rendered that impossible so we decided in the end to go ahead and do this on Zoom, which was certainly the first time I’d been at an AGM this way.
We had about 30 people successfully …
We are delighted to confirm we’ve taken on the role of hosts for the next International Council on English Braille (ICEB) General Assembly.
Braille, a system of raised dots, is the primary literacy medium for people who are blind, deaf-blind, or have severe low vision, and the Council works to coordinate and promote its use throughout …