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CMSS - Skills Development Centre For People with Disabilities

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Disability Rights

  1. Disability Rights Commission - www.drc.org.uk
  2. Disability Alliance - www.disabilityalliance.org.uk
  3. DASH Disablement Association Hillingdon- www.dash.org.uk
  4. Mencap - www.mencap.org.uk
  5. SCOPE - www.scope.org.uk

Community Services

  1. Hillingdon Adult Education - www.hillingdongrid.org/hae/
  2. Uxbridge College - www.uxbridge.ac.uk
  3. Valuing People - www.valuingpeople.gov.uk
  4. Harrow Arts Centre - www.harrowarts.com
  5. Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College - www.bcuc.ac.uk
  6. Paradigm Consultancy - www.paradigm-uk.org

National Institutes

  1. BILD - www.bild.org.uk
  2. NILD - www.nild.net
  3. RNID - www.rnid.org.uk
  4. RNIB - www.rnib.org.uk
  5. Learning Difficulties - www.learningdisabilities.org.uk
  6. Institute of conductive education - www.conductive-education.org.uk

British Sign Language

  1. Learn BSL - www.learnbsl.org
  2. Signpost BSL - www.signpostbsl.com
  3. British Sign Language - www.british-sign.co.uk

Miscellaneous links

  1. Connexions for 13 to 19 yr olds - www.connexions-direct.com
  2. Disabled Dating  - www.dating4disabled.com
  3. Dating Agency - www.lovebyrd.com
  4. Living Care opportunities - www.gumtree.com
  5. Inclusive Dance Company - www.stopgap.uk.com

Accessibility references

  1. W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
  2. W3 accessibility techniques, which explains how to implement each guideline.
  3. W3 accessibility checklist, a busy developer's guide to accessibility.
  4. U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines.


Accessibility software

  1. JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
  2. Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
  3. Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
  4. Links, a free text-only web browser for visual users with low bandwidth.
  5. Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. A free downloadable version is available. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.


Accessibility services

  1. Bobby, a free service to analyse web pages for compliance to accessibility guidelines. A full-featured commercial version is also available.
  2. HTML Validator, a free service for checking that web pages conform to published HTML standards.
  3. Web Page Backward Compatibility Viewer, a tool for viewing your web pages without a variety of modern browser features.
  4. Lynx Viewer, a free service for viewing what your web pages would look like in Lynx.


Related resources

  1. WebAIM, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving accessibility to online learning materials.
  2. Designing More Usable Web Sites, a large list of additional resources.
  3. Dive Into Accessibility, an excellent practical guide to Web accessibility.

CMSS Latest News



Updated June 2010

 Jamboree 2010

Would you like to be involved in a fun packed day for all the family? If your answer is yes then your in luck. CMSS's Jamboree is only three weeks away. On Saturday 3rd July we will be hosting our anual event, with activities ranging from live music, Tombola, horse racing, raffles, food, bbq, Bar and much much more. So come on down and have some fun in the name of a good cause. If you would like to make a contribution or sponsor any part of this event then please contact Naheed on 0208 8663711 or naheedjudge@hotmail.com

  

CMSS Lease

 We are pleased to announce that our CMSS lease has been renewed for another 5 years until September 2014. This will enable us to further develop and utilise our independent living skills area and our computer suite.

 

PLEASE HELP!

 We are currently looking for a community based building in Central Harrow for our Harrow Community Links Project. This will need to be accessible with accessible, disabled toilets, and be available Monday to Friday 9am-3pm. If you know of any building or large hall, which is available, or is likely to become available in the near future, please contact Betty Morris or Naheed Judge on 02088663711 for further details.

 

Can you help?

 Have you been attending CMSS for 50 years? Has your family been involved with CMSS for many years? We are currently in the process of publishing a book about the history of CMSS and we need any old newspaper cuttings, photographs, letters, or anyting related to the history of CMSS. Please could you forward these to Betty Morris and we will photocopy them with your permission, and give the originals back to you.

 

Northwood Project Piloted Sept 09

 

 We have implemented our 5th Community Based Northwood Service to provide a service to those clients who require a programme of less physically demanding activities.