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@inspired December 2007
Welcome to the first edition of the @inspired newsletter from all at Inspired Services.
Every month we will share with you some news, comment and our top tips on making your information more accessible.
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News
• Would you complain? Our new DVD pack
• Launch of new company and new website
Comment
Top tips
• Making your information more accessible
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As the UK’s largest provider of EasyRead material, we have set up a new company to cope with a huge increase in demand.
Inspired Services Publishing Ltd opened doors for business on the 1st October 2007. For most customers this will be a seamless change over. For new clients we will now be able to cope with orders more quickly and efficiently with dedicated accounts managers, more designers, more writers and more people with learning disabilities working on your EasyRead projects.
We have also revamped our Web site to give you the latest news, comment and information.
Click here for more information.
Picture yourself in a café; you find a worm in your burger. Would you complain? Of course you would!
Picture yourself in your own home; your support worker is not listening to you or your needs. Would you complain?
Everyone has the right to complain, but it’s not always easy and few people with learning disabilities do. Many people do not know that complaining can have a positive outcome. This is what a group of people with learning difficulties from Tower Hamlets set out to show in their new video complaints pack.
The pack including DVD and supporters’ notes is designed for use in groups and it helps people, over several sessions, learn about complaints and explore what they feel about making them.
The group launched the DVD at Learning Disability today on 31st October. The group is going to use the proceeds from sales to carry on their work and make sure that more people know about complaining.
For more information or to buy a copy of the pack please click here.
We are pleased to announce a new reduced price for putting information into audio as MP3 or WAV files for CD or web. It is now £10.50 per full A4 page. We offer a range of voices and fast turnaround when needed.
Andrew’s latest Blog, in conjunction with Community Care magazine,
The roundabout of fashion is speeding up
“Whilst getting older I had promised myself I would try not to behave like my parents. The grown when you get up from a low chair, complaining about the new music of the day, how time goes by faster and faster and how you had seen that new policy or practice before, with a joke about waiting long enough and my flared trousers will come back into fashion.”
Continue reading "The roundabout of fashion is speeding up"
Every month we are going to share some Top Tips on how to make your information and events more accessible. This month we are starting with some general pointers for producing accessible information:
· Involve your audience from the beginning. Ask people which formats they need and offer a good range, including EasyRead and audio. Ask people to be involved in producing any new guide, not only does this give people jobs, it means you get it right from the beginning.
· Get the right tools. If you are producing documents in-
Developed by the National Forum, we use the Valuing People Clipart Collection
which you can use to illustrate your documents in different programs like Word and
Publisher or in any other desk-
The Valuing People Clipart Collection contains over 1500 full colour images. For more information please click here.
Darren, our design manager will give an insider tip to help you use the Valuing People Clipart Collection to make simple and smart EasyRead documents.
This month’s tip:
When laying out documents in Word, use a table to insert pictures and text. This prevents the format from being thrown out in different versions of Word.
Put the pictures on the left and the corresponding paragraph on the right. You can choose whether to keep the grid lines in or for them not to show when printing the document. Do this by selecting ‘format’ and then ‘borders and shading’.
If you have a design question please send it in to Darren.
The answer will be emailed back to you and could appear in the next @inspired newsletter.
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