Researching the online shopping experience of people with disabilities.
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Businesses lose money every day due to inaccessible websites and apps.
➡️ 7 in 10 disabled customers click away from a site they find difficult to use
➡️ £17.1 billion= amount businesses lost to inaccessible sites in 2019
➡️ £274 billion= Purple Pound
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Visually impaired users complain after rail websites go greyscale for Prince Philip theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
What is it about disability in this government?
The government is facing the threat of fresh legal action after it failed to provide a British Sign Language interpreter at a televised pandemic briefing by the prime minister, despite spending £2.6 million on a new media room.
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The minister for disabled people has been told by 10 user-led organisations of their “serious concerns and disappointment” about his efforts to engage with disabled people on the government’s proposed national disability strategy.
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A private sector contractor has been announced by the government as a “gold standard” employer of disabled people, just as a coroner was implicating the company in the decision of a young disabled mum to take her own life.
disabilitynewsservice.com/co…
Retailers don't generally build in accessible shops so why do they build inaccessible website? And inaccessible website is a failure of management and it is not solely the developers fault. @Freeneywilliams #A11Y
It's #PurpleTuesday 💜, so all day we'll share useful info to help improve customer experiences for disabled people. This factsheet is all about how to complain about inaccessible websites and make a difference:
abilitynet.org.uk/factsheets…
@PurpleTuesNov @EASShelpline @CAPsurvey
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Did you know? Up to 1 in every 10 people in the UK has some degree of dyslexia.🧐
Despite this, the web #accessibility needs of people with #dyslexia are often overlooked.
Learn how to make your writing and web content more accessible with this guide.
bighack.org/how-to-write-bet…
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Disability hate crime prosecutions plummet, while Home Office stays silent
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Disability: towards global best practice - BDF businessdisabilityforum.org.…
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Little progress has been made in the 12 years since a ground-breaking investigation exposed how disabled people were being “harassed, attacked, humiliated and even killed” because their lives were considered less valuable than others, says a new report.
disabilitynewsservice.com/li…
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Hundreds of disabled people are continuing to die every year after having their claims for disability benefits rejected, new #DWP figures have revealed.
#PIP
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No surprises but a worthwhile read some lessons to be learnt in the UK I think.Flatten Inaccessibility Study | American Foundation for the Blind afb.org/research-and-initiat…
Visually impaired Scots get sonic help with Covid graphs theguardian.com/society/2020…
If you have a few minutes to spare this is an interesting looking piece of research which can only strengthen the arguments about website access ability.UK Online Customer Experiences & Brand Perception: An Accessibility Study docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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“Devastating” new official figures showing how many disabled people have died from #coronavirus demonstrate that the government has violated its obligation to protect their right to life, says a leading disabled expert.
disabilitynewsservice.com/de…
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Government faces calls to scrap ‘discriminatory’ pandemic emergency measures
@ALLFIEUK @DisRightsUK @InclusionLondon @GMCDP @NSUNnews @ROFAcampaign
#COVID19UK
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The government has attempted to address some of the concerns about the abuse of disabled people’s rights to health and social care that emerged during the early months of the #COVID19 pandemic.
disabilitynewsservice.com/go…
Can anyone give me information about the access ability of Google!'s jamboard from a practical viewpoint?
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In analyzing online shopping experiences of people w disabilities, @CAPsurvey found that 69% of users will simply click-away when confronted with a problematic website. That's a lot of lost $. No improvement between 2016 & 2019. We need to fix this. #a11y clickawaypound.com/
