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www.dyslexics.com (one of various web pages on dyslexia; it's a
commercial one, I know it because it's a speech software place) has
information on this

http://www.dyslexic.com/about.php

and on web accessibility

http://www.dyslexic.com/articlelist.php?section=webaccess

this is their UK web page; that might be useful too (sorry, it's a
long time since I dropped in on them).

http://www.iansyst.co.uk/home.php

I can find you others but a good starting point too -- and one the
University should take seriously -- is the assessor for dyslexia to
whom your University refers dyslexic students; the University's
Disability Adviser will know who that is.  S/he will be an expert on
this.

Let me know if you need more refs etc., I am not an expert in that
particular field but I can probably find someone who is

Judy Evans
Cardiff (UK)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evelyn Toseland" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: Call for Papers: Disability Studies: Theory, Policy and
Practice


> 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
> ;)

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