Disability and accessibility websites links

Here's some websites and blogs which cover disability and accessibility issues. As always, the usual disclaimers apply! — (we're not responsible for the content of other websites)

• TechDis
  leading educational advisory service, working across the UK, in the fields of accessibility and inclusion.
• Royal National Institute for the Blind: web access centre blog.
• BBC | Access 2.0
  This is a BBC blog all about their work on accessibility.
  
• Ouch! is the website for the BBC Radio Show. It has a long blogroll of blogs by disabled people.
  
• Accessify Forum
  This is one of the few online forums devoted to accessibility. Very geeky!
• Disapedia
  To provide all the community, information and resources any disabled individual could want or need.
  
• WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) is committed to improving the Web for disabled people.
  One service the site offers is a screen reader simulation which will give you an idea of how a blind person might use the Web. Other services include a distractibility simulation, which shows how a person with a cognitive disability might see the Web, and a low vision simulation.
  
• The Gimp Parade
  Feminist disability politics and cultural analysis.
• But You Don't Look Sick?
  Magazine about living life to the fullest with any disability, invisible disease, or chronic pain.
• Disability Studies, Temple U.
  Cool stuff in the world of Geography, Disability Studies, and Educational Leadership. Based at Temple University in Philadelphia, with contributors from coast to coast. Check out our 'Notable Blogs' list - your portal to the disability blog world.
  
• The 4th Avenue Blues
  I am a 34 year old man living with and experiencing paranoid schizophrenia. Here I write about my daily travels through life and living with a mental illness.
• Disability Rants
  Step in and read some of my trials and tribulations of life as a wheelchair user.
  
  
  

The local punt firm with a heart of gold

If your idea of punting in Cambridge is crowds of assorted students, tourists and local people weaving around and falling in the river, you may think it's not for you, but think again ……

Down a beautiful backwater you will find a family firm renowned for their friendly, helpful attitude, especially to people who are a little anxious about getting in and out of a punt.

Lawrence Austen and his team were nominated in 2005 and again in 2006 because of their outstanding care for wheelchair users, people with learning disabilities and the elderly.

Nominations have come from a German studying at long Road Sixth Form College, a Canadian holidaymaker and a club visiting Cambridge for the day.

Many residents always recommend the Granta because they know it is an independent firm which can be relied on to look after their customers and give them a day to remember.

http://www.puntingincambridge.com