Accessibility resources for your hub
Understanding ways to provide the right support helps you better meet the needs of people in your community and can also encourage independence and boost social connections, giving people the opportunity to learn and succeed together.
Recognising and supporting accessibility helps create a fairer and more inclusive environment. For tutors, fostering an inclusive learning environment is key to helping people reach their full potential.
In this article we're thowing a spotlight on some accessibility resources that can help you better understand and address the unique needs of the people in your community, ensuring they receive the support they deserve.
My Computer My Way is a comprehensive collection of guides from AbilityNet. They offer step by step instructions on how to adapt your phone, computer or tablet to meet your needs. You can search for a specic need (e.g. making text larger) or alter the guides based on your symptoms (e.g. hand tremor) or condition (e.g. dyslexia). You can also search and filter by operating system.
If you support older people or disabled adults, AbilityNet's webinar New Year, New Digital You on the 22nd January, 11:00 - 11:45 (and available on-demand afterwards) covers useful resources and advice to help your clients. It will cover online tools and apps such as:
- Shazam
- YouTube
- Reverse image search
- Wayback Machine
- Project Gutenberg
This handy collection of Easy Read Technology Guides from Digital Unite can help you to get started with using technology. Some of the areas covered include:
- Staying safe online
- Shopping online
- Learning to use a computer
- Getting online more cheaply
- Helping people with learning disabilities to use technology
A Guide to Running an Introduction to Technology Session from RNIB is aimed at any group, or organisation, which wants to help its customers with sight loss to understand what technology can do for them. It gives an outline of how to run an introductory session, and provides a few tips and hints. It also details some of the resources you will need to help blind and partially sighted people get started with using technology.
Good Things Foundation's Doing digital inclusion with people with learning disabilities handbook is for small organisations who want to do more to reach the most digitally excluded people in the UK and this Easy Read Guide to Registering on LMW is a simple step by step guide, with screenshots for each stage, is ideal as a learner handout or poster for your classroom.
AI and accessibility
AbilityNet has several articles on AI, including how it can be used to transform the lives of older and disabled people.
What is AI and how do I use it?
How articial intelligence may already be positively impacting your life, and how you can embrace its benets in your daily activities.
5 ways AI can help disabled people in the workplace
Webinar recording and resources. How AI is empowering and transforming the lives of disabled people, highlighting current examples of AI in action.
How can AI help disabled people?
This article explores the impact of AI on improving inclusivity through its applications in captions and transcriptions, voice assistance, readability, text alternatives, and understanding tone.