Resources

These resources consist of the following sections: Tutorials, About disabilities and Useful links. The Tutorials identified from external resources are aimed at self-directed learning. A variety of websites have been selected to compile the About disabilities section. The Useful links have been selected to provide either a starting point or further information.

Please contact Angela Ashpole, Information Accessibility Advisor, if you wish to include additional resources.

Tutorials

• AbilityNet: customising a computer
• Adobe Accessible Flash tutorial
• Freedom Scientific's Accessibility and Usability
• GCF LearnFree.org - free tutorials for many of the standard Office applications and much more besides
• iBooks Author: How to make your iBooks accessible
  
• JISC Techdis Accessibility Essentials Series provides clear tutorials for creating accessible Word, PowerPoint and PDFs
• Lexdis: students' experience of e-learning
• RNIB: slide layout and design for presentations
• Web Aim: accessibility from a user's perspective
• WebAim: PDF accessibility
• W3C: How to make presentations accessible to all
• Accessibility of Blackboard 9.1 (used for NILE) - including video clips of a JAWS user interacting with some of the learning tools

About disabilities

• JISC Techdis - SimDis - a collection of simulations which attempt to emulate a range of disabilities
• Watch Words - deaf awareness for teachers
• Department of Health: What is a disability
• Autism and Asperger Syndrome - National Autistic Society
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
• RNIB: about sight loss
• RNID: information and resources for deaf and hard of hearing people
• Specialist services provided by Deafblind UK
• British Dyslexia Association: about dyslexia
• Dyspraxia Foundation: Further/Higher Education
• Epilepsy Foundation: what is epilepsy? and Epilepsy Action: Education professionals
• Mental Health Foundation: introduction to mental health
• Mobility impairment: Scope: cerebral palsy and associated impairments, about Muscular Dystrophy and about Multiple Sclerosis
• Speech impairment: Afasic - unlocking speech and and language and The British Stammering Association

Useful links

Within the University

• Access Ability Team and the support and services for disability
• What are Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs)
• ELSA: Extra Learning Support and Assistance
• The University's Mental Health Adviser service
• Northampton Assessment Centre - independent Disabled Students' Allowances (DSA) assessment centre at Park Campus, open to all higher education students
• Equality and Diversity
• Recording Policy on electronic recording of lectures by students
• Designing modules for accessibility (PDF 161KB)
• Guidelines for creating accessible video
• See examples of transcripts used on video case studies of international students

External to the University

• Six surprising bad habits that hurt dyslexia users
• JISCs 'Effective Practice in a Digital Age' bitesize videos explore how 4 universities use technology (blended learning) to enhance students' learning experiences
• Disability and the Equality Act 2010
• RNIB's Accessible information
• RNIB's top 5 software tips
• Strategies for Creating Inclusive Programmes of Study (SCIPS) including disability etiquette
• Lasa Knowledgbase: Web 2.0 & Accessibility for Disabled Users
• The Open University's Identifying accessible websites and web documents
• JISC Techdis: Web2Access helps understand range of access issues.