Travel Hands Blog

For anyone who doesn’t know what inclusive design means, it means designing for a wider audience that fits the needs of “everyone”. 

There are many benefits to creating a workplace that is accessible and inclusive to all. People with disabilities as well as people of varying ethnicities, faiths and sexualities are capable of just as much in the workplace as a less diverse team.

Accessible solutions are of critical importance for people with limited abilities. If you’re creating a website for people with a particular disability you could ask them how their condition affects them while using your site. This might help you understand better what kind of solutions and practices you should avoid.

Firstly, the understanding of a disorder by name may be misleading. In this case, many people think that people who have struggled with CP can not do anything. Nevertheless, the truth is that a lot of people who suffer from this disorder have partially functional limbs and so they can work, learn and do many daily activities to live more independently.

1 June 2021 to 7 June 2021 is national volunteers’ week in the UK and we would love to use this opportunity to thank our volunteers from VIP World Services and Travel Hands. Your contributions have been an important part of building our business and you are always a big part of our VIP World community. So, a big THANK YOU to all our volunteers.

Travel Hands is a service designed to ease the outdoor commute of VIP (Visually Impaired People) by pairing them with sighted & verified volunteers to walk together to similar destinations ensuring a safe, convenient, and inexpensive travel experience.

Creating and designing websites which meet accessibility guidelines is not a piece of cake. Before you start designing a new website, it’s essential to find out what the most important criteria are to bear in mind during the creation process in order to avoid wasting time or maybe even money to improve it in the future. 

Whilst there are arguments both for and against the COVID-19 vaccination. Discussion has arisen on whether VIP should be on the government's priority list for receiving the vaccine.

This blog is to make us realise where we stand on accessibility measures of mobile apps in order to undertake necessary improvements. I rate popular phone apps on their accessibility index. Five aspects are tested and a score out of 5 is given to each app.