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Mrs Grips is looking at communication and presentation in IT for people with neurological challenges like dyslexia but also anxiety issues, ASD or other issues. Like making text simple and clear, simply not writing too much etc.
Does anyone know of resources or information about this topic? Gov.uk sprang to mind as an example - it's laid out with simple short sentences and large text, but also low contrast text etc.
This might help as a start GDS Service Manual - Accessible Services. It's part of the service manual used for building government digital services, which includes GOV.UK itself.
Lots of other resources out there but it's probably as good a starting point as any. Be warned though there's a lot of content so you'll end up down a few rabbit holes.
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What you are describing is just good practice.
As above, this is a massive topic, but the DAC have some good resources.
http://digitalaccessibilitycentre.org/index.php/resources
And for anything usability/accessibility related, the Nielsen Norman Group are a goldmine.
If it's largely Microsoft based, then the MS educator community has a few online courses that can take you through some of the tools available in Office that can help making things more accessible.
I've done them recently for a project I'm starting looking at supporting dyslexic learners at school using technology. The first easy thing I've done with all of my material is to use the 'Check Accessibility' feature that the newer version of office have. It's in the Review tab, and it does a pretty good job of pointing out a few things that you might not think of.
The GDS manual is good, and I know they've done a lot of work testing it with people but not sure they've covered much with ADS etc but they try and cover people who are dyslexic. Careful with cribbing directly from government.uk pages though, some are quite old.
The main theme from the gds stuff is one question per page mainly, so probably the thing to replicate if doing a presentation. And simple high contrast colours.
I make use of these posters as aide memoires in work - https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility/