ICT and accessibility
This booklet is designed for all voluntary and community organisations to explain why accessibility is vital to support your work with beneficiaries, and how easy it is to make simple improvements to accessibility.
The booklet is part of an accessibility pack produced by AbilityNet, the UK’s leading authority on accessible IT, for the ICT Hub, along with the Successful Computing for Disabled People CD.
The first section of the booklet explains how accessibility can help improve your service to users, volunteers and employees, and how through improving accessibility you can enhance the efficiency and reach of your service. It also aims to clarify your legal obligation to make adjustments for disabled people and simplify some of the information surrounding this area.
Section two gives straightforward and practical guidance for improving the accessibility of your organisation. Our top ten lists will help you make your services more accessible to staff, volunteers and service users who experience difficulty or discomfort using a PC. Experience also tells us that making IT accessible has the potential to improve the experience of a broad range of learners. Most of the ideas in this booklet are free, or cost less than £100.
Section three signposts sources of further information and advice for organisations wanting to build on the ideas suggested in this booklet. Along with the 'successful computing' CD, it should give you the tools you need to affect further change.
