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17:06 16th November 2010
A new initiative designed to improve the usability of the internet for the disabled has been launched.
The campaign, called Fix the Web, has set up a website which allows disabled web-users and the elderly to report any hard-to-use sites they come across while online, the BBC reports.
Those taking web design courses may be particularly interested in this news as the scheme is looking for volunteers to highlight web design problems that affect the disabled, such as text size and cluttered page layouts.
Citizens Online, the charity behind the campaign, predicts that there are as many as six million elderly and disabled internet users in the UK.
The charity is looking to recruit 10,000 volunteers over the next two years in an attempt to run a check on up to 250,000 websites.
Dr Gail Bradbrook of Citizens Online said: "We expect to see ramps, extra wide doorways and adapted toilet facilities, but what about the equivalent online?
"I firmly believe that this isn't a problem disabled people should have to deal with on their own," she added.
Get Online Week 2010, which was held in October, succeeded in getting 30,000 people in the UK started with computers and the internet.
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