Making every document an accessible document
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 …
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 …