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A few months back we received a Helpdesk request asking if we knew of any research around the use of voting systems with dyslexic students (for example, the issue of them not getting ‘extra time’ – which may have been agreed as part of their study strategy – when questions are on screen for a [...]
Time flies. In 2009 the London Bookfair had its first ever accessiblity strand. We were present with the “Books Are Brilliant” video which has since done the rounds in many publisher events. Four years later the accessibility session is popular enough that even in a room at the end of a labryrinth on the first [...]
The fourth Design For All Foundation Award Ceremony took place last week, to recognise some of the most useful and innovative developments in Design For All (and accessibility) across Europe. Entries were received from a total of 17 countries and whittled down to a shortlist of finalists in each of four categories. The winners were:
Continue reading: Design For All Award Winners Announced
According to the website Terms of Service; Didn’t Read it is “I have read and agreed to the terms”. A lot of the terms and conditions we agree to are long and complex and many people don’t or can’t read them. How many of us really know what Facebook does with our data, or [...]
Continue reading: What’s the biggest lie on the web?BETT 2013 saw the launch of two new technologies resulting from our SBRI competition – Azzapt by Iansyst and Navitext by System Associates. We would like to thank Iansyst for this guest post, reflecting on the launch of Azzapt.
Wednesday 30th January saw the opening day of BETT 2013, based in its [...]
Continue reading: SBRI product launches at BETT 2013I was delighted to have the opportunity to talk about Discover Jisc at BETT 2013. One reason for this is that there has been a huge turning point for us in the project this last week or so. We are moving forward well with partners and Jisc Services and [...]
Continue reading: Discover JISC at BETT 13 and the Bigger PictureThis is the second post in a short series looking at ways to remove some of the distractions from webpages. In the previous posts we looked at SoundGecko and Pocket.
Evernote Clearly is an extension to Evernote, essentially an online notebook that [...]
Continue reading: Declutter your online reading – Evernote ClearlyThis is the second post in a short series looking at ways to remove some of the distractions from webpages. In the previous post we looked at SoundGecko.
Pocket has been around for a while, until recently it was called Read It Later. It is [...]
Continue reading: Declutter your online reading – PocketTag Cloud
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