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ClacksWeb

ClacksWeb is the corporate website of Clackmannanshire Council, the smallest mainland local authority in Scotland. The site has been produced with accessibility in mind, in the knowledge that those customers who benefit most from access to the council's services and information are often those most excluded by inaccessible design. In 2005 it became the first website to receive Accessibility+ accreditation from the Shaw Trust.

Latest from the weblog

• It’s good to talk
  New devices that enable deaf people to have a greater level of participation in phone calls and meetings have been developed by UK organisations. One of the organisations Teletec, a Bedfordshire-based company, will launch two services to help those who are hard of hearing to use their own voices, by incorporating Internet devices and voice recognition [...]
• Palestinian conflict portrayed in game
  Conflict zones might not occur to you as the best starting point for creating a game but Global Conflict: Palestine is aimed at bringing to life some of the issues in the Middle East in a bid to educate people. Based in midst of the conflict in the Palestinian territories, the game depicts a young [...]
• Blog for Britain
  The National Trust are encouraging people to record a day in their lives on their website. Thousands of people in the UK are expected to participate in the project, which aims to create an online archive of people’s diaries in the country. The project is being called “Britain’s Biggest Blog” by the National Trust, and was [...]