Category: Accessibility
Kirsty Macfarlane 
03.08.17How To Make Your Organisation More Accessible
It’s important to make sure your website and company literature is accessible for everyone, particularly those with disabilities. Our tips below highlight several ways you can make sure that everyone can access your content. Website Content Alternative Text Screen readers used by those with visual impairments have no way of processing images, therefore it’s important … Continued
Kirsty Macfarlane 11.05.17The Importance Of Mental Health Awareness Week
Mental Health Awareness Week was introduced 17 years ago by The Mental Health Foundation and continues to highlight the importance of good mental health. However, a recent report by the Education and Health Committees has found that mental health support for children in schools is lacking. The report discusses how, despite an increasing number of children … Continued
Susan Day 10.03.17Why Accessibility is Important
What do YOU think of when you hear the word ACCESSIBILITY? Is it …. OR OR OR You may answer ALL of the above! Accessibility means giving people access to the world around them whether that be access to a building for a wheelchair user via a ramp or by producing an electronic book which … Continued
connect_staff 19.12.16So how would you like to learn Braille?
Last year I made a few big changes in my life. Met my partner, moved from Liverpool to Nantwich, took up my first admin job after a number of years teaching. This year the changes continue and life is quite exciting! I applied for an admin job here at Connect back in September, and … Continued
Alastair Fielden 30.11.16A Week in the Life Series: Episode 4 – ‘Moving Forward’
“As you know we have almost completed our assessment process and thought it might be a good point to have a chat with you both to see if you have had a chance to read the assessment reports and discuss how things have been going…” The reassuring voice of the lead psychologist invited comment. It … Continued
Alastair Fielden 24.11.16A Week in the Life Series: Episode 3 – “A Testing Time”
With an internal sigh the SENCO considered the forms in front of her on the desk, and the possible options open to them, was it necessary to place Jack onto the next stage of the school SEN register, and if so on what basis? It seemed to be the next logical stage in the process, … Continued
Alastair Fielden 13.11.16A Week in the Life Series: Episode 2 – “I am going to get it right!”
“Oh, Oh, I know Miss…Miss!” as Jack thinks of a good reason and shoots up his hand in an effort to gain his teacher’s attention. “Yes, Salu, what do you think?” as the teacher scans the room ignoring Jack’s noisy hands-up in favour of one of the ‘quiet’ hands waiting to contribute. Jack, beginning to … Continued
Alastair Fielden 09.11.16A Week in the Life Series: Episode 1 – What is up with that child?
A parent walks wearily up to the school gate at the end of another long day. Already feeling frazzled and wondering how the next four hours or so until bedtime will go today, this parent arrives in time to overhear a small group huddle together, commenting, “That child just seems all over the place, can’t … Continued
Alastair Fielden 31.10.16Note Taking Made Easier – Audio
Settling on the most comfortable and accessible note-taking method for our access needs and preferences is important, yet the choices available to accomplish this can seem bewildering. Note-taking technology has increased the range of options available, along with accessibility options in the system settings of mobile devices, which cover audio recording, dictation, digitized handwriting and … Continued
Alastair Fielden 14.10.16Building Braille Awareness
As part of a local school’s class topic on Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille, Connect staff were invited to work with two classes of six and seven-year-olds to give them experience of what it can be like for those with a visual impairment through a series of practical and engaging activities. During the … Continued
