Welcome to Ability

Ability is the UK's leading publication about people who have difficulty using off-the-peg I.T.

The magazine is aimed at all who buy, run and use accessible systems in business, education, in healthcare and at home.

In each issue we provide insights into the products, strategies, techniques and skills required to deliver systems that can be used by everyone. If you are involved in making IT inclusive then Ability is for you.

Features

Workspace »

Swiss Bank UBS treats the needs of its disabled staff as a priority

Gestural computing »

Interfaces that rely on body movements may do away with keyboards

Assistive tech »

Pat Sweet reports on research that may transform disabled people's lives

ABILITY SITE PUT TO THE TEST

Shaw Trust recently subjected this website to a day long accessibility assessment. The results were encouraging, but the organisation's team of testers in Neath, South Wales,came up with a number of improvements which we will be implementing soon.

"Some people have an attitude problem when they come here: they don't realise the barriers that exist. They go away the wiser," said Kevin James one of the Shaw Trust's testers.

www.shaw-trust.org.uk

ENTERPRISE SURVEY

image of a pencil Ensuring that IT is accessible to people with disabilities is important to enterprises. However, it is clear only a minority of organisations recognise this. Bloor Research, Ability and Headstar are carrying out a survey to better understand attitudes and plans for accessiblity. Please spend five minutes to fill in the survey by clicking here