Pia’s a company that’s probably very familiar to many UKAAF members, as well as the wider visually-impaired community. This month, though, we got a chance to get beyond the logo and really get a sense of the company, as Roger sits down with the company’s MD, Sharon Williams, who’s been with the company for 23 …
This month, Roger sat down with Toronto-based UKAAF member Crawford Technologies, a supplier of document accessibility solutions whose customers include some of the world’s leading banks, healthcare providers, insurance companies, and utility companies.
Sharing the Crawford Tech story is one of the company’s UK-based Accessibility Specialists, Jane Black. Jane gives us an excellent potted history of …
Here’s a good reason to join an organisation you don’t know anything about:
Realise it’s a great way to help a cause that really matters to you.
That’s one way, at least, of understanding the latest UKAAF monthly webinar, where Roger sat down to talk to fellow UKAAF Board member Jeff Mills.
Very well-known to the UK accessibility …
When I say the word ‘design,’ you may think of design as a rarefied field of expertise–architects doing genius things in their studios. And when I say ‘disability,’ far too many people think of disability as a very particular issue or identity topic that doesn’t really affect that many of us.
But just look around at …
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 …