Abstract
The Children's Society's Shared Care Project in Solihull worked with disabled children and young people to develop ‘Askability’, a unique website (Askability.org.uk). The website was designed to make news, sport, film reviews and fun activities available to disabled children who had difficulties accessing websites and television programmes and so had no provision or access to news in a simplified format or language they could understand (ie. pictures, symbols). The website was developed by Solutions Squared in partnership with disabled young people, who have helped both in the design and the update of the website. Since its launch in 2006 the website has achieved and maintained at least 35,000 hits a week worldwide and continuous feedback demonstrates that it is a much‐valued site by both the user group and people who support them. It has evidenced that information can be simplified and made accessible while enriching and empowering young people who are able to communicate using the web.
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