Sponsors and exhibitors
Barclays
Barclays is a major global financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth and investment management with an extensive international presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs 140,000 people.
Barclays has had a pro-active accessibility agenda for several years, partnering with the UK’s Business Disability Forum (BDF) and other leading disability charities, striving to make banking easier for all customers and clients as well as employing a diverse workforce. In 2012, Barclays made a public commitment around accessible technology by signing up to the BDF’s Accessible Technology Charter and in 2013 Barclays publicly announced its ambition to become the most accessible and inclusive Go-To Bank.
Digital Accessibility Centre
Digital Accessibility Centre is a non-profit Social Enterprise working with organisations across sectors to help ensure their digital products are accessible to everyone, regardless of age or ability.
DAC employ a team of testers, all of whom are people with disabilities. We test websites, intranets, internal applications, mobile web, apps, games and EPG.
DAC services are of the highest quality, robust and adhere to current standards. All clients are encouraged to engage with our team, which provides them with a better insight into real-life use of assistive technologies.
More information on Digital Accessibility Centre
Tel: 01792 815267 Email
Texthelp
Texthelp believes that everyone shares a fundamental need to be understood by others, and language is our passport to academic, social and professional success. This is what drives Texthelp to create smart, easy-to-use support technologies that enable young people and adults read and write with confidence and independence and to develop digital skills in multiple languages.
Texthelp works with leading technology companies including Google and Microsoft, and many of the world’s major educational publishers to provide bespoke literacy support solutions to classrooms worldwide. Our software is used by private, public and non-profit organisations worldwide to promote equality and diversity, personal empowerment while increasing efficiencies and reducing costs.
Traveleyes
Traveleyes is a travel company with a difference. We provide holidays for both blind/visually impaired and sighted travellers, journeying together in a spirit of mutual independence and we venture to some of the most fascinating of world destinations.
Sighted travellers travel for up to 50% off the price, in return for being the eyes for blind travellers.
GeorgiePhone
GeorgiePhone is a family of Android smartphone apps that make using your phone and carrying out everyday tasks quick and easy for people with all levels of sight loss.
GeorgiePhone’s big bright buttons and words with colour choices make phoning and texting easy, and for those who can’t see, everything can speak.
Choose from:
- Apps to make bus and walking journeys less stressful, helping you find where you are, and what’s around;
- Apps for surfing the web, enjoying YouTube, setting calendar reminders, speaking the colour of your clothes; reading your mail
And many more!
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Partners and supporters
E-Access Bulletin
E-Access Bulletin is the world’s leading email newsletter on access to technology by people with disabilities.
All our content is newly researched and written or commissioned by journalists at the bulletin’s publisher Headstar. The newsletter is emailed out in plain text format, designed to be easy to read by text-to-speech or text-to-Braille technology.
If you would like to subscribe to our free monthly bulletin, please email us at eab-subs@headstar.com adding “subscribe to eab” in the subject header.
One Voice for Accessible ICT Coalition
The One Voice for Accessible ICT Coalition brings together like-minded organisations to act together with shared values and common goals to further the awareness, implementation and delivery of accessible ICT for the benefit of all. The Coalition acts as a facilitator between all members, working to an agreed agenda that is set by the members and providing a mechanism to share information.
The aim of the Coalition is to promote the take-up, usage and availability of accessible ICT. We achieve this through the following activities:
- Campaigning to increase awareness of ICT accessibility issues, influencing providers of goods and services to make their products and services accessible and usable
- Promotion of what already exists to help disabled users with technology
- Professionalism which aims to establish accessibility as an integral part of training provided to IT and associated professionals.
AbilityNet
AbilityNet is the UK’s leading pan-disability, pan-age charity that changes people’s lives by adapting technology. We help the disabled, elderly and those with a limiting health condition to better engage with the digital world through a range of services, including:
- Assessments for individuals, whether they are in work, education or at home. The assessment guides an individual on how best they can adapt their technology or ergonomic environment to meet their needs;
- Accessibility consultants help organisations to deliver their systems, services, content and technology so that they are accessible and inclusive to meet the needs of the disabled, elderly and those with limiting health conditions.
We also provide a range of free services to help those most in need, such as:
- Advice and information through a free phone helpline and online fact sheets and other resources;
- Assessments in home for those not in work or education;
- In-home IT support to help resolve technical issues;
- Provision of IT expertise and projects to other charities, voluntary organizations and community groups to enable them to better deliver and serve their end beneficiaries.
More information on AbilityNet
Ability Magazine
Ability magazine is a campaigning publication for people who have difficulty using IT. It is aimed at those who buy, run and use accessible systems. Each issue of Ability magazine provides vital insight into the products, techniques and skills required to deliver systems for users who cannot use standard software and hardware.
Originally published by the British Computer Society’s Disability Group, Ability magazine circulates to users, IT managers, human resources professionals and those who work in the disability field.
Ability aims to keep readers up-to-date on trail blazing user projects, product releases, regulatory changes and company news. Its features section contains valuable case studies, discussions of technical issues, product reviews and analysis of the latest trends in accessibility.
British Computer Society Digital Accessibility Group
The British Computer Society Digital Accessibility Group exists to:
• Provide a forum to develop an awareness of Digital Accessibility issues.
• Champion the need for Digital Accessibility to be a cornerstone of all digital solutions.
• Provide tools and techniques to inform IT professionals on Digital Accessibility best practice.
The results of our latest survey reveal the extent of the problem among IT professionals:
http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/dasg-survey-may14.pdf
Join us, and help to solve the problem rather than being part of the problem!
Business Disability Forum
Business Disability Forum is a not-for-profit member organisation that makes it easier and more rewarding to do business with and employ disabled people.
We have more than 20 years’ experience of working with public and private sector organisations, formerly as the Employers’ Forum on Disability. Our members employ almost 20% of the UK workforce and, together, we seek to remove the barriers between public and private organisations and disabled people. We are a key stakeholder for both business and government. We have contributed to the establishment and development of meaningful disability discrimination legislation in the UK.
Business Disability Forum provides pragmatic support by sharing expertise, giving advice, providing training and facilitating networking opportunities. This helps organisations become fully accessible to disabled customers and employees.