Search results for “Accessible”

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• General Election Manifesto Comparisons: What the Parties are Saying about Deaf and Disability Issues

  …To make it easier to directly compare the GE2017 manifestos and what they have to say on Deaf and disability specific issues, Reclaiming our Futures Alliance ( ROFA) have pulled out relevant pledges and collated them under a number of…

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• #MyGPandMe Campaign for People with Learning Disabilities or Autism

  …The learning disability charity Dimensions have launched a campaign to make GP practices more accessible for people with learning disabilities. The #MyGPandMe campaign follows the publishing of Dimensions’ MyGPandMe Research which found that…

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• Barclays Bank Urges Businesses to' Re-think Disability'

  …A 2015 report by the Extra Costs Commission found that more than 3 in 4 disabled customers and their families and friends had moved their business elsewhere as a result of a lack of disability awareness by service providers. Taking up the challenge…

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• Know your Human Rights

  …The British Institute of Human Rights has recently launched a new online human rights tool called ‘Know Your Human Rights’ . The tool aims to support people with mental health and/or mental health capacity issues, and their…

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• Staying Inn at Christmas

  …You don’t need to be lonely this Christmas, even if you happen to be spending it alone. Instead why not have some fun in a virtual pub which aims to be accessible to everyone? The Staying Inn was set up to keep people in self-isolation…

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• Accessible Information Standard Review

  …Disability Rights UK is among a group of disability and accessibility organisations who have written a letter to NHS England to express disappointment at the lack of progress in reviewing the legally-binding Accessible Information Standard ( AIS…

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• Changing Places Compulsory from 2021

  …The BBC report that from 2021 new buildings including shopping centres, supermarkets, sports and arts venues in England will have to include at least one Changing Places toilet. Changing Places toilets are larger accessible toilets with a wider…

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• Steering to Accessibility

  …Sheffield City Trust ( SCT ) have been working with Disability Sheffield and have created a Disability Steering Group. Disabled members of the group have been experiencing all that SCT has to offer and providing feedback on their visits. In…

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• Would you like to earn some money contributing to research looking at making a well-known groceries website more accessible?

  …A small research business based in Leeds is helping to make a well-known groceries website accessible to people with disabilities and related health conditions. They are urgently looking for people who use assistive technology to take part in paid…

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• Sign Will's Petition for Disabled Access in the High Street

  …Will Pike was injured during the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai and is now paralysed below the waist. Will is campaigning to change the face of the high street and make it a more welcoming and accessible place for everyone. His film highlights the…

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