This page is for any web or other resources that you find helpful when designing for people who do not read easily.

Projects

A network of four academic projects with a common objective to explore ways to give access to those currently excluded from world telecommunications and digital networks.

• Bridging the global digital divide

 Articles and guidelines

Lisa Herrod's article on A List Apart discusses the difference between designing for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, and those who consider themselves to be culturally Deaf and who are therefore reading written language as a second language. She includes a set of design guidelines.

• Deafness and the user experience

A toolkit for designers and design managers to help them consider and implement inclusive design, i.e. design that is usable by a wider range of people, particularly those with capability loss. As well as information on the business case and the design process, there is detailed information on a range of capabilities and how they impact on design. Also includes simulators for a variety of vision impairments.

• Inclusive design toolkit

Top tips to follow when writing and producing Easy Read documents. Includes guidelines to follow for text, design and audio production.

• Easy Read Guidelines

Scope in Australia, a charity for people with a disability, publishes similar guidelines for Easy English

• Easy English Writing Style Guide (.pdf)
• Images for Easy English (.pdf)

Global English is a method of writing clear and simple text. (Global English also helps both human translators and machine translation systems.)

• Review of "The Global English style guide" from Techscribe
  

These authors provided guidelines on how to write for translation - and then tested and revised them in 2006.

• Writing for translation: Don't miss the opportunity!

Heuristics for designing for older people, based on extensive research by Ginny Redish and Dana Chisnell:

• AARP audience-centred heuristics (.pdf)

Practical tips for doing usability testing with older people, relevant to testing with anyone, by Dana Chisnell:

• Involving older adults in design of the user experience: Inclusive design

History

Judy Hunt reminisces about the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation, an early British group that campaigned against the segregation of people with disabilities and for the Social Model of disability. Their original UPIAS constitution is held at the Disability Archive UK maintained by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds.