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3. The session…
Equality Act and what it means to you.
EU Web Accessibility Sept 2018.
Advice on agile working, proper work place set up and support services available to assist UCL staff and students.
Assistive Technology and what we have available.

4. Statistics 10% of the population are dyslexic.
1 in 6 have a hearing loss.
50,000 are BSL users.
1 in 4 will suffer some kind of mental health problems in their lifetime.
1 in 30 has a sight loss.
Approx 10 million with a physical disability

5. Student Numbers by Disability 2004-5
Undergraduate
Graduate
Total
Blind / Are Partially Sighted 3 1 4
Deaf / Have a Hearing Impairment 19 13 32
Dyslexia
181 53
234
Mental Health Difficulties 9 10
Multiple Disabilities 11 14
Unseen Disability eg Diabetes, Epilepsy, Asthma 59 36 95
Wheelchair User / Have Mobility Difficulties 12
Disability Not Listed Elsewhere 15 68
No Known Disability
11716
6570
18286
Not Known 87
572
659
12141
7273
19414

6. Student Numbers by Disability 2016-17
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Total
Autistic Spectrum Disorder 31 32 63
Blind / Are Partially Sighted 28 33 61
Deaf / Have a Hearing Impairment 30 46 76
Specific learning difficulty -eg dyslexia
379
588
967
Mental Health Difficulties
288
209
497
Multiple Disabilities 85
104
189
Unseen Disability eg Diabetes, Epilepsy, Asthma
110
128
238
Wheelchair User / Have Mobility Difficulties 26 48 74
Other Disability 83
105
188
No Known Disability
16990
19238
36228
Not Known
261
631
892
Grand Total
18311
21162
39473

7. Equality Act 2010 Replaced the Disability Discrimination Act of 1995
The Equality Act, like the DDA, was introduced with the intention of tackling the discrimination which many people with disabilities face. ‘The Act is 'anticipatory', which means you cannot wait until a disabled person wants to use your services.
You must think in advance (and on an ongoing basis) about what disabled people with a range of impairments (sight loss, hearing loss, mobility and cognitive impairments) might reasonably need.’ - RNIB

8. EU Directive on Web Accessibility Sept. 2018
Establishes common accessibility requirements in order to ensure that websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies are made more accessible by making them perceivable, operable, understandable and robust.
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1524.

9. Timeline for Implementation
23rd Sept 2018 – law came into being.
23rd Sept 2019 – All websites created after 23rd Sept have to be accessible.
23rd Sept 2020 – All websites have to be accessible.
23rd June 2012 – All mobile applications have to be accessible.

10. ‘Content on new or updated websites that are published after 23 September 2018 has to be accessible by 23 September Existing sites will need to be accessible by September This is for public sites – so the main university website, faculty pages, anything not requiring a log-in.
Documents are exempt only if they were published before 23 September 2018 and not essential for services in your organisation. So a PDF published for the academic year would be exempt if it is no longer used but one that was published in 2017 and is still in use is covered by the regulations.
If the document was published on your intranet or extranet (ie staff and student have to log in) then content published after 23 September 2019 will need to be accessible.  This would be the situation for a document that was only available through Moodle, then September 2019 is the deadline. ‘

14. Support resources for staff:
Occupational Health
Employee Assistance Scheme
UCL Eyecare
Disability IT Support Resources
Access to Work

15. Support resources for students:
Library Disability Support
Student Support and Wellbeing
Student Psychological Services

16. Assistive Software on the Network – site licence
TextHelp Read and Write – text to speech software for dyslexics and those for whom English is not their first language. This also contains a wide range of useful tools.
Inspiration – mind mapping tool that helps you time manage and plan essays, and presentations.

17. Assistive Software on the Database–
Free and can be loaded anywhere
Workrave – timer software to remind you to take breaks
Balabolka – text to speech
Orato – text to speech
Ss Overlay – screen overlay
Rapid Set – colour and font change
T bar – screen ruler and colour block
Vu bar – slotted ruler
Xmind – mind mapping – free version
NVDA – screenreader for the blind

18. Live Captioning – 121 Captions https://www.121captions.com/

19. Demonstration Time

20. Michele Farmer m.farmer@ucl.ac.uk Disability IT Support Website