Dobson's Choice is a new way for people with learning disabilities to find information on the internet. We have been testing it and now we want to set it up in your area.

It is designed for people who can't read and it will help them to find local information, local news, local services, and lots of other interesting information from around Britain and the world.

We want your Local Council to set it up in your area. They could save money with Dobson's Choice because people could find information by themselves. People could look for services that are available locally on their own.

With Dobson's Choice your council would be able to communicate with people with learning disabilities - giving them up-to-date information, news and 'what's on'.

Ask your local council to get Dobson's Choice in your area. Councils can click here to get more information (pdf)

We are looking for more websites that are accessible to people with learning disabilities, or that have information for people with learning disabilities.

Email us with sites that you know, or join our Facebook group. We are wanting to use this Facebook group to discuss..

• new websites that are good for people with learning disabilities and..
• features or designs that you think help people with learning disabilities to understand the site

Dobson's Choice is at www.dobsonschoice.co.uk

Encourage someone with learning difficulties to have a go, and let us know how they get on. Make a link on your desk top so that people with learning difficulties can get to the site quickly and easily.

Let us know what websites they have found.

We will be constantly making changes and improvements, and will be adding new websites, so it's always worth having a look at what's going on.

Comments

1. Great website - one small thing: could there be gender balance in the pics of individual people - they are all men!

   Comment posted by: Michelle Rogers on 08 November 2010 at 12:12

2. We offer support to people with learning disabilities to volunteer, find work and use their personal budget to do fun stuff in Leicestershire. Here is a link to our website - http://www.valonline.org.uk/values We would like to feature on your website. we would also appreciate any info we can send the communications team about how to make the website more accessible. we will show some of the people we work with your site. i will tell our council that we want it here Cheers Mikaela

   Comment posted by: Mikaela Paterson on 12 November 2010 at 12:00

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