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.










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