Quicksheets

What are Learning Disabilities?

Learn more about learning disabilities and how they affect an individual’s life also beyond academics.

Background information on living with a disability

Here you will find a number of other interesting summative documents that do not deal with the DeveloperSpace topic (access to ICT), but provide a more spherical view of other aspects of disability.

About Decibels (dB)

This Quick Sheet provides detailed information about decibels, sound pressure level and our perception of loudness.

Quick Guide for Accessible PowerPoint presentations

This two-pager, created by New Editions Consulting, Inc., gives some useful tips for improving the accessibility of your PowerPoint presentation

PDF readers with Readability Features

We set out to see if there was a PDF reader that had readability features like the ability to change the font size, line spacing, word spacing etc.

Web Resources

This is a collection of resources for web accessibility, including key places which provide a large number of such resources.

Towards Accessibility for Cognitive, Language and Learning Disabilities

This QuickSheet provides a summary of key documents that can aid in gaining a better understanding of accessibility strategies for Cognitive, Language and Learning Disabilities

Readability

Learn more about readability, formulas and tools used to measure written text readability.

Accessibility and Universal Usability/Design Journals related to ICT

This is a list of scientific journals which are publishing research in the field of accessibility and/or universal usability/design, in close relation to ICT. Recently published conference proceedings and special issues are also included. The listed general disability journals also publish research in the field of accessibility and/or universal usability/design, but also recent work in other disability related topics (e.g. standars/standardization, ethics, legal issues, etc.).