Enabled London: Word-Bank

News alerts

NHS London has the overall responsibility for the performance of 31 primary care trusts (PCTs), 21 acute trusts, three mental health trusts and the London Ambulance Service. Click on Word-Bank's on|off button from the top right while learning about NHS London

Read Mencap's Death by indifference report and the Ombudsmans' Six Lives report

The London Boroguh of Sutton launches Word-Bank. 'Word-Bank is simple to set up and easy to use. Word-bank has added depth to our content and enhanced the user-experience when accessing our services on-line'.
Sue Austin, Website Manager for the London Borough of Sutton

Getting A Life uses Word-Bank, the project for young people with severe learning disabilities. GAL is about raising aspirations, making changes to the system and creating a clear path to paid employment. The project is supported by:

• Department of Work and Pensions
• Department for Children Schools and Families
• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Department of Health
• It also receives support from the Office of Disability Issues.

www.gettingalife.org.uk

Archive

Following public requests from the success of implementing Word-Bank on the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) site, the Equality and Human Rights Commission uses Word-Bank to meet their site visitors’ differing needs.

Word-Bank wins the best innovation award from the Accelerator. Nominees included mobile content suppliers BillAdam and Blue Badge Route.

Ealing Broadway Bid reaches Ealing's diverse communities.

Disability Rights Commission proves Word-Bank 100%.
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) independently user-tested Word Bank and proved the system to add clarity and rich contextual information to support individuals in reading and understanding written web-information by 100%.

The Disability Rights Commission's pilot of Word-Bank is live.

New Statesman Award nomination.

Selected for a BBC Innovation lab, click to learn about awards

What other people say

BBC Ouch look at the web from the point of view of inclusively and 'cut the jargon down to size'.
Visit their blog and leave your comment .

E-Access Bulletin who promote a modern government and fair society would like to know, is this the first of its kind?
Visit their blog and leave your comment.

Download a case study about WordBank or find out about our user-led history.