Making every document an accessible document
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 …
November 26th, 2020 – Things may be less than ideal for everyone right now but a brighter future lurks and here to kick-start your day is the latet issue of Format Matters edited by the very fab UKAAF board member and editor, Jim McCafferty.
This latest issue features a selection of UKAAF news stories, updates from …
UKAAF will host ten sessions on accessibility during the course of the event
UKAAF’s lunch-and-learn sessions are aimed at providing essential facts and information about accessible information standards.
UKAAF board member, Tim Nelms, will host a panel on the Future of Accessible Information with participants from The DAISY Consortium and the PDF Association
London …
October 19th – The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is jointly hosting the General Assembly of the International Council on English Braille (ICEB) with UKAAF (UK Association for Accessible Formats) from 18 – 22 October.
The Assembly was originally scheduled to be held at the Google Academy in London in May but had to …
UKAAF’s Tim Nelms finds grounds for both optimism and pessimism for members in the latest Level Access study on ‘The State of Digital Accessibility 2020: The Technology Sector’
What’s notable here is that Level Access was actually founded by engineers with disabilities, so when it looks in-depth at a problem like digital accessibility in the tech …
COVID’s been tough for us all, but it’s been even more so for the disabled, vulnerable and the blind. The difficulties faced by people who are blind and visually impaired as they adapt to a world of social distancing, have not been widely understood, as often these guys are just so stoic they don’t want …