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To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Robin Christopherson - Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet - has written an open letter to the UK government asking it to enforce accessibility laws.
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Joe Chidzik, senior accessibility consultant at AbilityNet reveals common accessibility mistakes and why accessible apps and websites are not just better for the UK's 12 million disabled users, but are better for search engines and better for everyone.
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AbilityNet is calling for the European Union’s web accessibility ‘agreement’ of 3 May 2016 to go further and include all public, private and third sector websites and mobile applications to be accessible, especially for people with disabilities.
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More than 500 hours of Youtube footage is uploaded every minute, but almost every second of it is impossible millions of visually impaired people to understand. AbilityNet's Robin Christopherson thinks that's about to change and that by the end of the decade robots will be delivering high quality...
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Tremors can be caused by a variety of conditions and can make it very difficult to operate a mouse, keyboard or touchscreen. Alex Barker offers his tops tips on common solutions.
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Voting is open for this year's Digital Leaders 100 and AbilityNet is shortlisted for digital charity of the year.
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AbilityNet is running a series of DSA Practitioner Days in centres around the UK. These free events provide an opportunity to discuss the latest changes to Disabled Students' Allowances, meet other advisers from FE and HE and see some of the tech that AbilityNet has been recommending to the...
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It’s weird. I work on the Helpline at AbilityNet so I talk a lot to people who have Parkinson’s disease, but I never for one moment imagined that my dad would end up having the condition.
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AbilityNet's IT Can Help has 230 volunteers who support older and disabled people to use technology at home. In February, the service was contacted by 80-year-old Ruth from Lincolnshire. Age UK had let her know that free computer help was available after she became more frail following an operation...
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Twitter has recently made it possible to add alt-text to images, but will this be enough to make the image-laden web more accessible for people with visual impairments? Robin Christopherson thinks it may need a bigger push - or maybe there's completely different solution around the corner?
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