It’s time for another set of interviews! Regular readers will remember my series of a few months ago where I interviewed the MPs (and UKIP’s spokesman) to find out the disability policies for the four major parties. This week I’m starting a new interview series: charity leaders. Today we welcome the wonderful Mark Lever – […]
Author: Joe Reddington
AzuleJoe: behind the scenes of the CommuniKate 20 demo
One of the parts of CommuniKate 20 that turned out to be very popular is AzuleJoe, the demonstration software we use. It’s time to talk a little bit about that live demo and how it works. This is one of those posts that’s only focused on the technical reader. It will have very little value to the non-coders […]
Using AzuleJoe and CommuniKate 20 online
So in November we launched CommuniKate 20. We were, and are, pretty proud of it. In the last two months, something a little strange has happened, it’s been very popular, and interestingly we’re seeing more and more traffic to AzuleJoe, the demonstration software we use. We’d intended that the demo page be used by SLTs […]
Presenting CommuniKate 20!
Nine months ago I started working with Kate McCallum on a project that was pretty important to both of us. You will remember Kate from showing us how to hack a switch and from giving us a guide to creating a tactile overlay. Some years ago Kate built a page-set called CommuniKate for her little […]
Friday Requiem: Fran Brown
Quick note for readers. I think it’s important that I consider my back catalogue of posts to be part of the site and that they get maintained, looked after and followed up on. So each Friday I’ll be picking a post I did from that week last year, and see if my opinions have changed, […]
Mark Harper, Minister of State for Disabled People
Today we finish up my five part series interviewing the Disability spokespeople from the UK political parties. This final interview is with Mark Harper, Minister of State for Disabled People, and thus pretty far up the ladder. Mark became the Minister on 15th July 2014 having been in parliament since 2005. JR: You’ve very recently […]
Kate Green, Shadow Minister for Disability
Third in our set of four political interviews Is Kate Green Member of Parliament for Stretford and Urmston and Shadow Minister for Disabilities. I’m keeping to a rule of ‘NO editorialising’ on these interviews so I’ll let the Q&A do the talking. I’m just back from a very international meeting of disability bloggers and it […]
Stephen Lloyd MP
Second in our set of four political interviews Is Stephen Lloyd the MP for Eastbourne and member of the Liberal Democrats… As with UKIP, the process of getting hold of the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson was somewhat confusing… Them: “Hello, Liberal Democrat press office.” Me: Hello, my name is Joe Reddington and I run a disability […]
Cllr Star Etheridge, disability spokesman for UKIP
We kick off our set of four political interviews with Cllr Star Etheridge, disability spokesman for UKIP, I spent some time in the last post being impressed with Star’s general efficiency and so today all I have to do is introduce her. Star is a solicitor who represents the Coseley East Ward in the West […]
Politics unusual: I interviewed the disability spokespeople for each of the four main parties, including the Minister of State for Disabled People Mark Harper
This is the first post in a five part series. The next post will be an interview with Cllr Star Etheridge who is the Disability Spokesman* for UKIP and next Monday’s will be an interview with Stephen Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne and Willingdon representing the liberal democrats. On that Wednesday, we’ll have Kate Green, MP for […]