Click-Away Pound

Businesses lose money every day due to inaccessible websites and apps. ➡️ 7 in 10 disabled customers click away from a site they find difficult to use ➡️ £17.1 billion= amount businesses lost to inaccessible sites in 2019 ➡️ £274 billion= Purple Pound buff.ly/2QGjspo

Visually impaired users complain after rail websites go greyscale for Prince Philip theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/a…

What is it about disability in this government?

The minister for disabled people has been told by 10 user-led organisations of their “serious concerns and disappointment” about his efforts to engage with disabled people on the government’s proposed national disability strategy. disabilitynewsservice.com/pressure-mount…

A private sector contractor has been announced by the government as a “gold standard” employer of disabled people, just as a coroner was implicating the company in the decision of a young disabled mum to take her own life. disabilitynewsservice.com/company-implic…

Retailers don't generally build in accessible shops so why do they build inaccessible website? And inaccessible website is a failure of management and it is not solely the developers fault. @Freeneywilliams #A11Y

Did you know? Up to 1 in every 10 people in the UK has some degree of dyslexia.🧐 Despite this, the web #accessibility needs of people with #dyslexia are often overlooked. Learn how to make your writing and web content more accessible with this guide. bighack.org/how-to-write-b…

Disability hate crime prosecutions plummet, while Home Office stays silent disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-hat…

Disability: towards global best practice - BDF businessdisabilityforum.org.uk/news-opinion/d…

Little progress has been made in the 12 years since a ground-breaking investigation exposed how disabled people were being “harassed, attacked, humiliated and even killed” because their lives were considered less valuable than others, says a new report. disabilitynewsservice.com/little-progres…

Hundreds of disabled people are continuing to die every year after having their claims for disability benefits rejected, new #DWP figures have revealed. #PIP disabilitynewsservice.com/hundreds-dying…

No surprises but a worthwhile read some lessons to be learnt in the UK I think.Flatten Inaccessibility Study | American Foundation for the Blind afb.org/research-and-i…

Visually impaired Scots get sonic help with Covid graphs theguardian.com/society/2020/s…

If you have a few minutes to spare this is an interesting looking piece of research which can only strengthen the arguments about website access ability.UK Online Customer Experiences & Brand Perception: An Accessibility Study docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

“Devastating” new official figures showing how many disabled people have died from #coronavirus demonstrate that the government has violated its obligation to protect their right to life, says a leading disabled expert. disabilitynewsservice.com/devastating-co…

Government faces calls to scrap ‘discriminatory’ pandemic emergency measures @ALLFIEUK @DisRightsUK @InclusionLondon @GMCDP @NSUNnews @ROFAcampaign #COVID19UK disabilitynewsservice.com/government-fac…

The government has attempted to address some of the concerns about the abuse of disabled people’s rights to health and social care that emerged during the early months of the #COVID19 pandemic. disabilitynewsservice.com/government-tri…

Can anyone give me information about the access ability of Google!'s jamboard from a practical viewpoint?

In analyzing online shopping experiences of people w disabilities, @CAPsurvey found that 69% of users will simply click-away when confronted with a problematic website. That's a lot of lost $. No improvement between 2016 & 2019. We need to fix this. #a11y clickawaypound.com