Home About us Gallery News Calendar Areas of activity Fun Articles Careers Referrals Contact ? Help - Change text size + Enable screen reader

CMSS - Skills Development Centre For People with Disabilities

Links


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



NEWS****** ******FLASH

*CMSS*

*Diamond*

*Jubilee*

*60 Years*

*29th September*

*2012*

This year at CMSS is a very special, exciting and a fun packed year for us as we will be celebrating our Diamond Jubilee.

Throughout the year, we will be having lots of different events to celebrate this special year.

Events for the year:

1st June: Evening disco and buffet

29th June: 'The In Between Years' performance by Clients of CMSS at the Compass Theatre

2nd July: 'The In Between Years' performance by Clients of CMSS at the Compass Theatre

6th July: A day trip to the sea side

10th August: Picnic in the grounds

12th September: Carers outing to Buckingham Palace

29th September: **GALA DAY**

24th November: Christmas Bazaar; 'Launch of 'The In Between Years' History Book'

14th December: Christmas Lunch

 *Gala Day*

 

29th September 2012

2pm-6pm

 

Please come and join us to celebrate this special day of the year. The day will be packed full of fun; Barbeque, Bar, Coconut Shy, Raffles, Bottle tombola, refreshments, beat the goalie and plenty more...

If you are able to volunteer, support, double fund or donate any items for the forthcoming events, please email Naheed Judge on naheedjudge@hotmail.com or Leana Hughes on lealea300@hotmail.co.uk.

 

 *Holidays*

 

Butlins Bognor regis: 30th March - 2nd April and then again 13th-16th April
Center Parcs Elveden: 18th- 21st May
Alton towers: 28th May- 1st June
Gladwins Farm: 15th-22nd June
Potters resort: 13th-17th August and then again 24th-28th August
Centre Parcs: 7th-10th September

 

*Socials*

 Filming of ' Family fortunes' : 6th feb
Valentines disco- 14th feb
x factor concert: 3rd March
quiz night -9th march
Jubilee disco event- 1st june
Performance at compass theatre: 29th june and 2nd July
whole centre day trip: 6th july
Picnic afternoon~: 10th August
carers trip to buckingham palace: 12th sept
gala day: 29th sept
bingo night: 19th oct
xmas bazaar: 24th nov
christmas lunch: 14th dec

 

*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.