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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