- From: <Marypbw@aol.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 14:32:28 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
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I am writing for some help/advice. I work as an Occupational Therapist with adults with Intellectual (learning) disabilities in the UK. For the past few years myself and a colleague who is a speech and language therapist have been trying to find new ways of making information accessible for the people with whom we work. The main problem many of them have is poor or no literacy skills. We have been using a literacy computer program (Clicker 5) to write individualised information packages - using images and speech to support text, which we called CADI. We have written about this for peer reviewed journals and do have a blog _(https://ucaninformdotcomdotcom.wordpress.com/author/waightoldreive/_ (https://ucaninformdotcomdotcom.wordpress.com/author/waightoldreive/) ) with more information. However the computers are limited as the program is on one computer which we then have to lend to the person. The ideal would be to set up a web site and look at ways of making information accessible using that. However we are both therapists with little to knowledge of coding or writing programs/websites. We also both work for the NHS in England and have no money to fund anything. Is anyone aware of people who might be able to help us devise and design a truly accessible web site for this population ideally on a pro bono basis? Or if there are agencies/trusts/charities that might fund this kind of work? thanks Mary Waight
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