welshfocus.co.uk

Our Framework

We are campaigning for change. In the New Age of Austerity we believe that investment in people with regard to accessibilty issues can bring long term benefits for everyone.

At a time when there are so many critical economic and practical questions for communities right across the country together with questions about the whole future of social cohesion, we see an opportunity to promote ways of doing things that can shed new light on issues that are relevant to all sections of society.

We are all in search of access to a better life. By working together we can make things happen.

Our Library

The keynote library now has over 125 entries, with 15+ added weekly. We also showcase key reports from the frontline. The goal behind this area of the platform is to give people access to the kind of quality information, in context, that they need in researching aspects of their everyday life.

It is also our aim to see that health professionals, people working in academic fields and campaigners for change can have a kind of resource based shelf to hand that will add a new dimension to their search for key facts and directions in their endeavours. PDF Documents are embedded in the site in a unique way, ensuring that with a single click, whole documents resize according to the browser and come to life inside the site within seconds.

Our Consultants

Welsh Focus is about highlighting change. To bring about what we see as a practical new approach to looking at disability issues online we have developed a platform to promote that change. We are joined in our endeavours by a resource bank of consultants, each with their own area of specialism. The plan is to develop this area of the site into a hinterland of experience about disability matters that is unique.

Our Media Centre

Our media centre logs full press releases, landmark rulings and key decisions in Wales and England that affect the lives of disabled people. This area of the site includes breaking news stories as they happen..

Our Forum

Welsh Focus is user centric. At the heart of our platform is news, features and articles about issues, generated by individuals, organisations and businesses that want to join us and offer support for what we are doing..

Month in focus newsletters from Welsh Focus founders, Damien Chick and Henry Langen, provide a thread for key campaign pointers.

Built into the framework is the first Google Plus forum anywhere in Wales for people to debate issues related to accessibility. This section of the site is already beta testing.

Our Frontline Reports

Welsh Focus publishes access to frontline reports. Showcased covers provide information about the latest reports that we have available to browse.

The reports are logged, edited and entered into the library. The emphasis is on accessibility. The body of each report is presented magazine style, designed to give disabled people the best access possible with the minimum of keystrokes.

Frontline reports are searchable within the site. Searches can also cross reference. The approach brings questions of technical accessibility to the forefront of the debate about ways in which the web can be engineered to reach key audiences.

Our Articles in Focus

Our Articles in Focus give consultants recruited to the project, the opportunity to discuss issues close to their hearts, with the lens filter of their competencies and specialisms bringinging a particular sharpness to their discussion and campaign pointers.