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Hi, all. I have been following your debates with interest. I'm not an academic, just a a poor AS techie who has not any of the academic high-falutin' stuff or pieces of paper but who just needs to get the job done? I have already built a website on disabilities and the Internet for those of us who make Web pages, and am now making one for the University where I work. Problem is that the academics want me to cite references. They don't seem to know what to do without a long bibliography, and it seems common sense and lots of weblinks won't do. What I really need is references for any papers, journals, peer-reviewed links, whatever that you may have come across on _why_ people with disabilities need to see text in certain formats. I know a fair bit about people with partial sight and completely blind people and their assistive technology, though I would be grateful for references, but I need info particularly on Dyslexia. I have been told dyslexics need wider line-spaced text, plain, light or white backgrounds, open. large fonts, but have no academic material to back it up. I have access to university library and interlibrary loans but our university has very little on this. I suspect it might be buried deep in obscure journal articles and is such common sense that it hasn't been cited? The purpose of the (non-profit) website is to be a resource for the academics and other staff in the institution to refer to in order to provide a better service for the students with disabilities we increasingly have. Many thanks for any suggestions. Evelyn Toseland ;) ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.