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Charity Website Designed for People with Disabilities

A website which is to be launched by a North East charity has been created with the needs of people with disabilities in mind.

Inspire, which provides support to hundreds of individuals with learning disabilities and additional support needs, is to launch its new and fully accessible website on the 8th August.

“As a charity that promotes inclusion in all aspects of its work, it was of fundamental importance that our new website was designed in a way that made it accessible to as wide a demographic of the population as possible”, said Fiona Poustie, Head of Business Development & Fundraising, “Inspire is known to its peers as an innovative and forward-thinking organisation and we’re delighted to have received a website which fits in so well with what we’re all about”.

The website, which can be found at www.inspireonline.org.uk and was donated free of charge by local company Greybar Design, has a number of progressive features which Inspire hopes will help to set it ahead of other charitable organisations.

Fiona continues, “We have installed browsealoud on our website. This programme reads web pages aloud to those people who find it difficult to read online. There are over 19 million people in the UK alone with literacy problems, dyslexia or a registered disability and we wanted to ensure that we reach all these individuals. The site can also be translated into 5 different languages and includes a dictionary and font size adjuster”.

As well as being accessible, the site aims to be an information portal for people with disabilities. “Many of the individuals we support find themselves socially isolated and through this site we hope to generate new friendships and empower people”, says Fiona, “we are, therefore, in the process of developing a forum on which the people we support can give each other advice and share information and ideas”.

To view Inspire’s new website, go to www.inspireonline.org.uk.

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