To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day 16 May 2024, Helen Wilson and Roger Firman are in conversation about some of the biggest challenges for people using assistive technologies regarding creation of documents, and some aspects of website development. Importantly, amazingly simple and straightforward solutions are offered which will make life so much easier for everyone …
In August’s UKAAF webinar Sophie Randall, Director of the Patient Information Forum (PIF) through personal experience described why health information is crucial for every member of society.
Sophie explained she began her career as a journalist specialising in public health as an Editorial Assistant for a magazine for environmental health officers who work in local government.
Issues …
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 …
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 …