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White House Embraces WCAG
Category: News
MIT to Caption content after ADA claim
MIT Website
Screentime
Rising H&S Fines
The study revealed manufacturing and construction sectors paid the most in fines as a result of health and safety breaches. The amount of fines increased to £13m from £7m – an increase of 83%.
Dyslexia Malvern
Interesting article by Melanie Jameson on the issue of Visual Stress and the varying approaches to remediation. Which one can we believe when all claim to hold the key to resolving symptoms and improving reading? Word Doc Download.
Self Esteem and Crime
CVS Stats
Causes and possible treatments.
DSE Regulations
Are they “Fit for purpose?”
Samaritans
Sometimes you just need to talk about it…
Real Children
I speak about a race of real children, not too wise or too good, but bounded up and down by love and hate, oh may their early joys be nature and knowledge, rightly honoured by that name, not purchased with loss of power.
Wordsworth – Prelude V.410-425
Oh may their early joys be nature and knowledge. Knowledge, rightly honoured by that name, not purchased with the loss of power. Don’t just sit there, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Digital Overload
Digital “media overload” or “cognitive overload” resulting in brain fog and reduced capacity to concentrate, stay alert or focused on the task in hand without getting frustrated by increased error rate and brain freeze?
Stand up and work!
In recent years headlines claiming that sitting is the new smoking have caused alarm among desk based workers especially in light of suggestions that regular exercise is not enough to undo sitting’s ills. http://www.hsmsearch.com/page_662205.asp
Mindshift
IT Checks for Schools
Keeping your network, school data, teachers and learners safe is a complex task, fraught with dangers. A specialist IT partner is ideally placed to keep abreast of the latest security risks and will ensure that your infrastructure, data security and pupil access to appropriate materials are kept up to date and as secure as possible. If you have a skills gap in your IT team, an IT partner can provide this resource for you much more efficiently with a blend of on-site and remote support services.
Partnering with an IT support provider ensures your IT costs are predictable, and your technology is cost-effective and future-proofed. It also helps stop those expensive IT investment mistakes that must be avoided as we try to cope with ever-increasing budget pressures.
A complimentary IT health check is available to schools at www.rm.com/changingIT
Dyslexia Tests
QuickScan Dyslexia Questionnaire and QuickScreen Dyslexia Test
QuickScan and QuickScreen – Two OnLine dyslexia tools.
QuickScan is an online questionnaire that provides an insight into learning modalities and other aspects of study skills as well as dyslexia.
QuickScreen is a more in-depth diagnostic-style test that looks at ability and performance in a range of literacy skills.
QS Dyslexia Tests (QS) provide two online products for dyslexia screening for young people and adults and will flag up indicators for dyslexia.
The dyslexia screening tools are ideal for both:
- individuals at home – and
- organisations – for their recruits, staff or students with a management portal, detailed reporting and annual licenses
Whether you are a personal user, educational establishment or workplace organisation, you have the option to use one or both of these screening tools depending on your requirements and results.
Please note there are costs associated with both tests.
But if you are signed in as a Display Screen Optimiser subscriber you can have a free go on QuickScan on the Tools Page
Why are we mentioning another company and website on our site? Because coloured overlays, in our case background colours for your digital display screen, help with dyslexia too.
In fact, this is how they were brought mainstream.
From working with people with dyslexia, we now know that coloured backgrounds also help mitigate the risks of screen fatigue.
For more information about QuickScan and QuickScreen, hop over to their website.
For more information about coloured overlays, and how colours can help you to improve your reading speed, improve your productivity and mitigate the harms of screen fatigue:
We suggest further reading from our blog – Colour Contrast 101 why is it important for eye health and then this excerpt from our white paper – Colour optimisation and visual stress
Eyestrain Insights
Symptoms usually begin to appear after extended computer use, reading, straining your eyes in dim lighting, or during activities that involve prolonged visual tasks.
The most common reason for strained eyes is Computer Vision Syndrome, which is caused by using a computer for a long time.
Computer Vision Syndrome
With the popularity of smartphones and tablets, we now have more exposure to the computer screen than we ever had before.
This increase in screen time comes with an increase in eyestrain and other eye and vision problems associated with computer vision syndrome.
IPSEA – Parental advice
Free and independent legally based advice about Special Educational Needs and Disability for parents and SEN specialists.
Windows 10 Night Light
Night light is a feature that reduces the amount of blue light at night time, and it displays warmer colors that can help to reduce eye strain and help you fall asleep after staying up late working on your computer.
Sleep Deprivation?
Do we really need to sleep? Dr. Thomas Neylan looks at intrinsic sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and insomnia and what to do if they affect you. Dr. Elissaios Karageorgio looks at how aging affects sleep and Dr. Rochelle Zak looks at the neurophysiology of sleep.
Circadian Stimulus
LRC Releases New Circadian Stimulus Calculator
The new calculator has greater functionality to aid lighting designers in the selection of light sources and light levels for “circadian-effective light exposure in architectural spaces.”
W10 App Colour Changes
Please note, we cannot provide any warranty that these methods work, but one thing seems to be sure – it hasn’t got easier in Windows 10 to make these kinds of change!
There are a number of possible solutions offered on this page.
Colour Changes
Colour Changes
A BBC “HowTo” guide for changing your screen colours.
How to change screen colours
CVS Study
CVS Study