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.
ECS Accessibility Projects
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Web2Access
Assesses the accessibility of many Web 2.0 services. Results, testing criteria and methods are available on the site.
LexDis
Explores the experiences of disabled students when working in e-learning situations, coping with a wide range of teaching and learning materials.
JISC TechDis Toolbar
A replacement for the existing JISC TechDis preferences toolbar. It offers many features common to accessibility tools and study-specific features.
Access Tools Flash Drive
The Access Tools USB Flash drives will contain freely-available accessibility tools, thus making the entire package easily re-distributable.
PicBoard
Innovative symbol-based communication for schools, within a rich web environment.
Web2Access Validation Toolkit
Tools and materials allowing anyone to perform accessibility validation and submission of reports to our databases.
Magnifier
An open-source screen magnifier to accompany the NVDA screen-reader, for visually-impaired users.
Dr. Mike Wald
Mike leads research into accessible technologies. He has advised HEFCE, JISC, BECTA and Universities on enhancing learning through technology.
E.A. Draffan
E.A. built and ran a regional AT Centre at the University of Sussex, whilst liaising to introduce the concepts of equal access to teaching and learning.
Sebastian Skuse
Our resident developer and jQuery guru. Seb developed the JISC TechDis Toolbar and PicBoard applications.
Russell Newman
Our other web developer. Currently signed up for a Web Science iPhD at the University.
Chris Phethean
Chris joined the team as a summer intern and developed the Access Tools flash drive.
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