A website designed to allow people to tell Government and businesses how to make the internet more accessible has been launched. The eAccessibility Forum website offers people using and working on the internet, including disabled learners and staff in universities and FE and HE colleges, the opportunity to discuss difficulties they have noticed in accessing websites and other online services and to promote best practice.
The site is designed to assist the Forum, a broad coalition of Government, charity and private sector organisations, in developing and sharing ways to improve online accessibility. It will also inform the Forum's eAccessibility Action Plan.
Users of the site will be able to comment and debate on five key themes:
- how websites and online services can be made more accessible to people with disabilities;
- what support might be needed to make technology more accessible to disabled people, and how this is funded;
- how laws and regulations can be improved to make technology more accessible;
- how content, from television to eBooks, can be accessed equally by everyone;
- how Government and industry can more effectively inform people about online accessibility.
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