International Disability: United Kingdom

Accessibility: CHI 2001 and Beyond, Ariadne Issue 28
Action for Dystonia, Diagnosis, Education & Research (ADDER)
Artsline provides information on all the arts and leisure services available, both as audience or participants. The Artsline database provides updated data on the access to the arts and leisure venues and pursuits in the capital city of London. See their Links page and their special Projects page.
British Dyslexia Association
British Institute for Brain Injured Children (BIBIC)
British Mental Health Law
Cabinet Office E-government Resources provides Guidelines for UK government websites, Domain registration, Open Source Software policy, Electronic service delivery reports, and Directgov and e-Government Unit - website traffic figures.
Center for Accessible Environments (CAE) is concerned with the practicalities of inclusive design in the built environment.
Chair and scooter carriers
Cognitive Disability in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Education
Copyright (Visually Impaired Persons) Act 2002
Design and Layout: Accessibility
Disability Equality Duty (DED)
Disabled Holiday Information about holidays for people with disabilities including wheelchair accessible visitor attractions, activities, and accommodations
Disability humor: The BBC website in the UK has a rather good Web site called "Ouch". Their About page explains that it is basically a lifestyle site for people with disabilities—because there are so many sites available with support and help information. Be sure to check out the Ouch Play videos
Disability Now an online magazine that aims to be the only cross-media channel for disabled people, powered by disabled people.
Disabled People the merger of disability.gov.uk and the "disabled people" section of Directgov. Directgov offers disabled people information on a wide range of topics including financial support, home and housing, leisure and travel, as well as disability rights information.
Disability Solutions
Disability Rights Commission Formal Investigation Report: Web Accessibility (April 14th, 2004). The report is called "The Web: Access and Inclusion for Disabled People". There is a PDF of the full report, an "easy read" version in PDF format, an RTF version, and a Welsh or Cymru version in RTF. You can also order printed, Braille, or audio versions from The Stationery Office.
DisinHe: Web content accessibility
Down’s Heart Group (DHG)
Ekbom Support Group for Restless Leg Syndrome
English as a Foreign Language (University of Sussex Language Institute)
Equality and Human Rights Commission
Equality and Human Rights Commission: Disability
Ergonomics & Safety Research Institute (ESRI)
Essential Aids
Foundation for Assistive Technology (FAST)
Genetic Interest Group "The Genetic Interest Group (GIG) is a national alliance of patient organisations with a membership of over 130 charities which support children, families and individuals affected by genetic disorders."
Guide Dogs list of links
Headway, the brain injury association
Hearing Concern.org
Helen Hamlyn Research Centre Centre for inclusive design. Royal College of Art postgraduate art and design.
Help The Aged
Hyperguide to the mental health act
An Inaccessible Website Demonstration has been put together by the Disability Rights Commission, a UK Government organisation. The demo gives you a flavour of the kind of difficulties a range of disabled visitors can face. The demonstrations make a few suggestions on improving accessibility.
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
Institute Of Mental Health Act Practitioners
Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology online service. See Computing > Computers And Society > Social Issues Computing > Information Interfaces And Presentation (e.g., HCI) > User Interfaces.
Know Your Right (Scottish) Employment Relations Information for Workers ()
Leonard Cheshire Disability - the leading charity provider of services for disabled people in the UK and operate in 57 countries across the world
Making E-communication Accessible is a supplement to the SAIF Standards for Disability Information and Advice Provision in Scotland.
MENCAP
"Understanding learning disability" Mencap can help you make your information easy to understand for people with a learning disability. Or, if you have a learning disability, you might like to see their easy to read web pages and publications.
Mental Health Act 2007 (also available in plain text and PDF) [United Kingdom]
Mental Health Alliance
Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (also available in plain text and PDF)
Mobile phones for the blind The Owasys 22C mobile phone uses speech synthesis technology that allows you to make and take phone calls and text messages without the use of a visual display. (February 2005) [United Kingdom / Spain]
National Ankylosing Spondylitis Society (NASS)
National Autistic Society (NAS)
National Electronic Library for Mental Health of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
REMAP provides one-off technical aids which help disabled people of all ages to enjoy a better lifestyle. Every aid is given free of charge to the user. Remap operates through a network of 1,500 volunteers. The professional engineers, technicians, and craftspeople - along with medical and paramedical staff from community services and hospitals - all belong to approximately 100 panels (groups) linked to regions across the UK, with Scotland and the Isle of Man operating separately.
REMAP Scotland consists of engineers, occupational and physiotherapists, and other professionals engaged in helping people with their disabilities. Objective: "The design and construction of appliances to meet the individual needs of handicapped people where such cannot be provided by any other means, and the promotion of closer liaison between the Engineering and Caring professions." Members are volunteers and rely on donations of materials and funds from the general public. No charges are made to clients for the devices supplied.
Resuscitation Council (UK)
Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) "Helping you live with sight loss"
Royal National Institute of the Deaf (RNID) the largest charity representing the 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.
Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) Accessible Website Consultancy
Scottish Accessible Information Forum (SAIF) is a national project that works to support the rights of disabled people and care givers to have access to timely and accurate information to meet their needs.
"See It Right Pack" provided by the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). The See it Right pack is a series of 12 booklets giving comprehensive practical advice on designing, producing, and planning for accessible information.
Skill: National Bureau for Students With Disabilities is a national charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
SNOEZELEN® sensory stimulation therapy
Sportability is a British charity that provides sporting and adventurous activities for people with all forms of paralysis. Their motto is "If I can do this, what else can I achieve." [Note: the side navigation in this site doesn't work well in Firefox on the Mac so you will need to View Source to get at the side navigation links.]
Sports medicine and science in the UK
Stay in Touch A guide to telephones and services for older and disabled people.
The Dystonia Society
TIRESIAS provides in-depth information on assistive devices for people with visual disabilities, current and future research, technical information, disability organisations and agencies, sources of research, funding, publications, standards and legislation
Turner Syndrome Support Society
UK debut for ‘blind’ mobile by Geoff Adams-Spink. The first mobile phone designed specifically for blind and partially sighted people.
UK legislation and standards
United Kingdom’s Disabled People’s Council (UKSDPC)
- UKDPC Sub Committees with links to research reports such as "The Social Model of Disability and Emancipatory Disability Research – Briefing Document (Draft)" (79.3 Kb PDf)
United Kingdom Institute for Inclusive Design (UKIID)
University of Leeds Disability Studies Centre
University Students With Autism And Asperger’s Syndrome
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Statement on Web Access Report from the UK Disability Rights Commission
Web Accessibility and the DDA The Journal of Information, Law and Technology (JILT)
Web Access Centre
Webcredible
What are allergens? natural and chemical
World Wide Web Usability International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) (1997) 47(1) 1-222