We are the ECS Accessibility Team
We are a part of the Learning Societies Lab at the University of Southampton's school of Electronics and Computer Science.
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The Team
Accessicasts
Web accessibility in easy chunks
Accessicasts will provide a structured series of screen-casts that demonstrate how to check web accessibility and how to develop accessible websites.
Each tutorial will cover just one main subject. The site will mature to contain a variety of succinct resources which will be of benefit to web developers seeking reference.
Access Tools Flash Drive
Free accessibility software for USB flash drives
This menu will be the experience that greets users of our Access Tools USB Flash drives. The drives will contain freely-available accessibility tools, thus making the entire package freely re-distributable.
At completion, LATEU will be notified and the distributon of the flash drive to students and staff will begin. It will feature tools such as magnifiers, text-to-speech systems and a portable web browser with accessibility assessment tools pre-loaded.
The product will be free for anyone to download and use.
Accessibility Validation Toolkit
A step-by-step validation toolkit for websites
The Accessibility Validation Toolkit (AVT) will provide materials that support anyone in assessing sites against the Web2Access accessibility test criteria.
Lexdis
Disabled students' experience of e-Learning
The Lexdis project explores the experiences of disabled students when working in e-learning situations, coping with a wide range of teaching and learning materials.
Lexdis collects the strategies employed by all our participating students and publishes them on the website.
In the media...
“At Southampton University, the LexDis project is recording the experiences of more than 30 disabled learners to develop staff training...”
StudyBar
The open-source cross-browser toolbar for students
StudyBar is the replacement for the existing JISC TechDis toolbar. It will offer many features common to accessibility toolbars as well as study-specific features.
Web2Access
Accessibility of Web 2.0 Services
The Web2Access project has assessed the accessibility of many Web 2.0 services. Results, as well as testing criteria and methods, are available on the site.
This resource makes it easier for educators to select accessible tools to use for class activities.
In the media...
“Web2Access is a great reference site for anyone wanting to make more informed decisions about applying web 2.0 tools in an accessible way...”