Below is the announcement of a new area of the RNIB website. It covers a
great deal more than procurement, but there is a hefty section on
procurement that may be informative and relevant.
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RNIB's Software Access Centre launched in August 2006, with, among other
things, our top five recommendations for making software accessible.

Software accessibility has always been the poor cousin to web
accessibility, and we want to change that. This website aims to raise
awareness of the importance of accessible systems, and to give people
the resources they need to design, procure and test for software
accessibility.

It will be of interest to software designers, developers, systems
integrators, procurement professionals, accessibility policy makers, and
those of you generally interested in the accessibility field.

The content includes something for everyone and starts at the background
to software accessibility, moving on to laws and standards, procurement,
testing and evaluation, design and development and inaccessible
environments.

One of our top five recommendations is to try to carry out every task
and action without using the mouse - this gives a good picture of just
how difficult it is to use software that hasn't followed accessibility
standards.

You can find out more about this and the other top five recommendations
on the website.

Go to www.rnib.org.uk/softwareaccesscentre.

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Ruth Loebl
Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

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Ruth Loebl
Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
Fax: +44 (0)121-665 4201
Email: Ruth.Loebl@...
Web: http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/

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