Category: Accessibility
New eLearning course enhances skills and accessibility when assisting patients with sight loss in Nottinghamshire
A new Online Visual Impairment Training Course will be launched in the new year to help optical and healthcare staff and professionals in Nottinghamshire develop
Does your website comply with accessibility legislation?
Under the Equality Act 2010 website owners must ensure their websites are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities. Therefore, web designers, developers and operators need to be conscious of accessibility requirements.
Are supermarkets turning a blind eye to customers with visual impairments?
The COVID-19 pandemic has definitely been a real eye-opener for me where website accessibility and food shopping are concerned. As I’m self-Isolating and with my cupboards becoming bare, I, like countless others, have turned to the web to do some online food shopping. This should be pretty straightforward I hear you say, just click and collect, or click and deliver…..but this could not be further from the truth.
Are UK Trains Accessible to Passengers with disabilities?
If you are a person living with a disability, it’s frustrating that you cannot just turn up at the station, get on a train and travel wherever you want to go to the same as everyone else, due to the fact that you need to book assistance at least 24 hours in advance. How many of us, with such busy lives live 24 hours in advance?
Missed Appointments costing The NHS over £216m a year
Each missed appointment costs the NHS an average of £30. Therefore, the total annual cost to the NHS is over £216m which would fund the annual salaries of 2,325 full time GPs or 8,424 full time community nurses, it could pay for 224,640 cataract operations or 58,320 hip replacement operations as well as 216,000 drug treatment courses for Alzheimer’s
Guide Dog Passengers Can’t Hitch a Ride!
So, I arrive home after a busy week working away, need a taxi to get home but as usual it’s not as simple as you
Site for Sore Eyes – Website Accessibility
The democratising of digital technology There are over 2 million people in the UK living with sight loss and according to statistics, over 65% of