The document discusses issues of discrimination faced by disabled and deaf people in accessing digital content and public spaces. It proposes a new digital access project to make all digital designs and websites fully accessible to disabled users, in line with accessibility guidelines. The project will receive £25,000 in funding and partner with organizations to develop inclusive digital content.

1. Disability meets Digital
Alison Smith

2. Campaign for Disability + Deaf Digital rights
Raise issues, directly challenge, positive
action
Provide advice + consultancy

3. David
Collier

4. The Future is NOT
2 YEAR CONTRACT CANCELLLED

5. Virgin Trains
£67 ticket refunded
1st class return to
Glasgow [free
upgrade]
2 complementary
1st class tickets

8. “You are getting into territory here where,
like all the best blogs, you are both a jewel in
the crown for the West Midlands and also a
thorn in the side.” Jason Hall, Screen WM

9. http://www.switchnewmedia.com/NDI10/Accessible_Video/index.htm

10. Digital makeover
Level 1 Award: £4,500
Shortlisted: 2010 Consumer Action
Award

11. The built environment - what’s
the problem?

12. Disabled and Deaf people are
discriminated against every day
refused entry to schools, busses, trains, college,
shops, clubs, pubs, hotels - for being disabled
have to plan every visit out in location to parking
spaces + accessible loos
can’t to try clothes on in a store because there is no
accessible changing room.
finding the induction loop headset is broken -
after the performance has started
unable to buy sweets for their kids because the
door is too heavy to open

13. Disabled + Deaf people are
discriminated against every day
walking painfully across a rain swept car park
because the security guard refuses to allow
parking in the blue badge spaces provided
unable to go to cinema screenings or watch TV
because they are not BSL interpreted, Audio
Described or Subtitled
unable to read websites - it costs £1,000 license
fee for JAWS screen reader software
unable to read text because there’s no large
print, braille, easy text formats available

14. What is Digital access?
All things digital are fully accessible for ALL
Disabled people
All design of products + web development include
accessibility from the very start
Websites coded to work with assisted
Websites meet AAA of the W3C guidelines
Websites including content, navigation +
information also relevant for ALL Disabled people

15. Only 1% of Websites are FULLY accessible [United
Nations 2006]
1 in 3 people are either Disabled or know
someone who is Disabled.
18% of the UK population is Disabled under the
DDA Act [including people with Cancer, HIV, MS
and past conditions]
Disabled people are worth £80 Billion a year to the
UK economy
Equalities Act 2010 - it’s impact

16. New digital access project starting Sept 2010 ...
Partners:
£25,000 Digital Content
Development Programme

18. The Deaf Mugger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us7nAFSfo1U
Written by Ben Green
Cinematography by Chris Stevens
Directed and edited by William Mager
The Victim: Ben Green
The Mugger: Matthew Gurney
The Interpreter: Katherine Yeoman-Owens
Post production support: Nicky Evans

19. Audio Description
For partially sighted and blind people video content
is also inaccessible - unless it has been audio
described.
What follows is an introduction by the broadcaster
Channel 4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu0GYkuCrRg