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The web: access and inclusion for disabled people: a formal investigation conducted by the Disability Rights Commission
- Author:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 48p.
This report demonstrates that most websites are inaccessible to many disabled people and fail to satisfy even the most basic standards for accessibility recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium. It is also clear that compliance with the technical guidelines and the use of automated tests are only the first steps towards accessibility: there can be no substitute for involving disabled people themselves in design and testing, and for ensuring that disabled users have the best advice and information available about how to use assistive technology, as well as the access features provided by Web browsers and computer operating systems. Disabled people must frequently overcome additional obstacles before they can enjoy the full range of information, services, entertainment and social interaction offered by the Web: blind people need sites to provide, for example, text as an alternative to images for translation into audible or legible words by specially designed screenreading devices; partially sighted people may be especially reliant upon large-format text and effective colour contrast; people who are dyslexic or have cognitive impairments may benefit in particular from the use of simpler English or alternative text formats, such as Easy Read, and from the clear and logical layout of an uncluttered website; people whose first language is British Sign Language may also find Plain English indispensable; and people with manual dexterity impairments may need to navigate with a keyboard rather than with a mouse.
Sensory wellbeing
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 24, November 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Provides key information and statistics on sensory impairments.
Equal lives strategy: services for disabled people in Essex
- Author:
- ESSEX. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Essex. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 49p.
- Place of publication:
- Chelmsford
This strategy is based upon the feedback received from the consultation process on ‘Equal Lives’. It sets out the aims of social services in the way it commissions services for people with physical and sensory impairments. The first stage of the ‘Equal Lives’, consultation set out ways in which services for disabled people may be redesigned to help ensure that they remain independent by exercising control over their own life-styles and circumstances. Essex Social Services proposes to use ‘independent living’, the choice and control resting with disabled people, as the value base for future services for people with physical and sensory impairments.