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Pesky People successes
We are a newly formed company led by Disabled people (Director Alison Smith). Alison has 17+ years experience working in the cultural sector and now works as a freelance arts consultant.
Pesky People was set up as a direct response to the Digital Britain report and its exclusion of Disabled and Deaf people. It continues to campaign about the need for full accessibility to websites, digital content and products.
Since we started on 1 September 2009...
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Breaking news: Pesky People awarded £25,000
It’s with great pleasure to announce that we have been awarded £25,000 from the Arts Council’s Digital Content Development Programme for our OLILI project.
We are working in partnership with The Workshop in Sheffield to develop multi-level platform that enables disabled people to seek out Disability access information (in real time) and add their own commentary and listings including reviews, pictures, audio and videos.
This will...
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