JISC RSC YH Exchange News

AbilityNet run one-day courses of interest to professionals in public services, education, personnel, occupational health, equal opportunities and staff welfare, who wish to help people with all types of disabilities or difficulties such as “RSI”, eye strain, etc.
Courses are run in various venues in the UK throughout the year.
Forthcoming courses:
Accessibility in Microsoft Windows Vista and [...]

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JISC RSC Scotland North & East were invited to Barcelona last month to pick up an accolade for AccessApps! The occasion was the annual conference hosted by the IMS Global Learning Consortium and AccessApps is a project which had caught the judges’ eye.
AccessApps is an initiative supported by the JISC Regional Support Centres and JISC [...]

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The JISC invites proposals to develop a toolkit for use by researchers and teachers within UK Higher Education Institutions in addressing the four “top concerns” of accessibility, cost, copyright and quality identified in a JISC survey of university staff in 2007. Following the survey JISC SCG commissioned a report from Key Perspectives Ltd which contains [...]

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The BUFVC’s Learning on Screen Conference 2009 (7 – 8 April) will this year have as its main theme Disability and Access to Moving Image and Sound. The conference and awards are hosted by BBC’s Disability Affairs Correspondent, Peter White MBE.
In higher and further education, institutions are required to make reasonable adjustments in the delivery [...]

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Excellence in Inclusivity: How technology can support learners with dyslexia and other disabilities
3 Mar 2009 

Mega Centre, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
This event will highlight and explore some simple ways that technology can be used by all teaching staff to reduce barriers for learners with dyslexia and other learning difficulties, and in a way that enhances the learning [...]

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Surveys of institutional websites by JISC TechDis show Marketing is an area where many organisations fall short in their accessibility practices, risking both reputation and potential costs.
Whilst all the right skills exist in the institution, structures and policies often fail to bring them together in the marketing processes. From website information through to downloadable prospectuses [...]

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AccessApps has won the 2008 Scottish Open Source Award (SOSA) for Education Excellence!
AccessApps is an initiative developed by the Scottish JISC Regional Support Centres in cooperation with JISC TechDis. It consists of over 50 open source and freeware assistive technology applications which can be entirely used from a USB stick on a Windows computer, without [...]

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JISC TechDis – free Online Accessibility Self Evaluation service
What it is
Growing out of a series of pilots and online discussions with JISC Regional Support Centres, JISC TechDis now has six role related online self evaluations suitable for a wide range of teaching institutions and learning providers. For each role, the self evaluations allow managers to [...]

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Merry Christmas from the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber!
Our 2008 advent blog posts continue with interesting facts you may not know about the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber…
Week 3: Excellence in Inclusivity
Visit our Excellence in Inclusivity website to see how JISC RSC YH-supported organisations are using assistive technology with their [...]

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The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) have launched an online toolkit which provides practical guidelines for teachers and trainers to make learning materials even more accessible. The toolkit is now available on the Excellence Gateway – a simple, one-stop shop for resources that merge pedagogical and technical advice where previously these have been scattered [...]

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