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Webwatch
Our regular review of the best and worst of the web
Pick of the blogs
Physically disabled journalist and blogger Sarah Ismail wouldn't be without the internet for anything. Here she highlights some of her favourite disability blogs
Another brick in the wall
Graffiti is not usually recommended as a legal means of self-expression or stress relief, but Kelly Mullan has found an online resource where it is positively encouraged as therapy
Only dis connect
Ouch!, the BBC's disability web pages, are well known for their full-on, unapologetic and often quirky approach to their subject. Kelly Mullan reviews a new video project that's just gone live
CAB puts BSL online
In a move to expand its accessible services, Citizens Advice has just gone live with a British Sign Language service for deaf customers. Sunil Peck reports
Off the pace in the virtual race
As some people have pointed out, the virtual world can be a lot more accessible than the real world!
Linking to a brighter future
Do you want to change the world or just have a burning passion that you want to share with whoever will listen? E-campaigner Martyn Sibley says there are now tools at your fingertips that really could enable you to leave your mark on the world
Mixing business with pleasure
Artist, model, TV presenter and businesswoman Sophie Morgan is clearly a woman of many parts. But online at least, she’s fighting a losing battle to keep work and leisure strictly separated
Surfing back to my roots
Actress Julie Fernandez tells us how she’s using the web to brush up her Yiddish, drool over life in a Turkish cave and find a new fascination with beards
Days of Future Past
Recently voted one of the top ten fourth plinth exhibits in Trafalgar Square, performance artist Liz Crow finds solace from the past in the past present and future
Wool gathering on the web
Multimedia design professional and amateur knitter, Karen Virapen tells Disability Now where she finds creative inspiration – and a pattern for a woollen G-string – online
Banking on access to your money
Of all the developments of the online age, few have had as much impact on the everyday lives of disabled people as internet banking, says Paul Carter. But now some banks are introducing a gremlin that may reverse the progress
Special screenings
Does the fact that a website is aimed especially at disabled people mean it’s no fun asks Cathy Reay
Web of confusion
It’s coming to something when someone like Robin Christopherson, a consultant on web access, finds himself avoiding the internet because it fails to meet his own access requirements
In on the ground floor
In the early 90s, when the web was still the “Information super highway”, Julie Howell was one of the first to travel on it
The low-down on downloads
Digital downloading is the fastest and cheapest way to access your favourite hits. But, as Cathy Reay found, it’s not that easy if you’re disabled
Designs for living
Passionate about form and function, Denise Stephens (left) was inspired to set up Enabled by Design when her growing collection of assistive equipment made her home look more like a hospital than a machine for living in
Bags of opportunities
For Kate Waugh, a lifelong love of handbags has helped her get a handle on an enterprising business venture that’s also a hobby
Things can only get b3ta
Do you have to be an Alpha to love b3ta? Digital creative Max Zadow ponders the dilemma the site poses for disabled people
Filling Wembley with Smarties
Leoné Watson, of digital development agency Nomensa, loves to quest for information, entertainment and trivia
Shopping sites have much to learn
Ask any of my friends what my favourite hobby is and they’ll respond, possibly a little too quickly for my liking: shopping
Space freaks, corsets and Youporn
If you want to get ahead, get a virtual hat, says Lara Masters, who also uses the web to grow her prodigious vocabulary and research burlesque and bizarre film roles
Wasting time for fun
Comedian Steve Day has a good return from thousands of hours on Facebook: one gig booking and one lost friend
Brains, bikes and bodies
Motorsport journalist Chris Dabbs spends many of his web hours surfing sites that defend motorists from over-zealous policing. But he still has time to check out developments in cannabis drugs, the US election and the odd sexual carnival
Ouch and about
Damon Rose is editor of the BBC's disability website Ouch!. We asked him to share some of his favourite web haunts
Navigation's what you need
Web developers need to remember that not all computer-users are able to use a mouse to move around the screen, says Shaw Trust’s Stephen Lloyd
Are you being surfed?
A new web access standard should make life easier for disabled surfers, but it could be 20 years before the internet is truly accessible. Sunil Peck reports
Hitting the virtual floor
Cutting edge, fashionable and stylish – all things associated with modern club culture. But just how good are the major nightspots’ websites at detailing their facilities for disabled people, asks Paul Carter
Reading the news
A new report compares the accessibility of national newspaper web sites. Sunil Peck reports