Which public/voluntary sector organisations provide excellent levels of website accessibility?
Darlington borough council, Northumbria police and NHS Quality Improvement in Scotland have all received RNIB awards for best practice. How difficult is it to bring a website up to standard and is it expensive? It is just good design practice, where web designers conform to guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and involve disabled people in testing the site before it goes live. The complexity and costs depend on the size and complexity of the website. Do public/voluntary sector managers understand digital media? Most organisations have some degree of new media literacy, though this may not include the chief executives who traditionally may have relied on PAs for many of the tasks that we can all now perform via our desktop computers. Do you consider the Blackberry [handheld computer] a useful tool? Blackberry changed my life. As a campaigner and public speaker I am very rarely at my desk. Blackberry means I am always in touch with my office. Name your management
