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In Touch: Inaccessible forms; a new tactile watch

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28/01/2014

Inaccessible forms; a new tactile watch

BBC Radio 4 - In Touch, Inaccessible forms; a new tactile watch

Advice on dealing with inaccessible forms and a new tactile watch, the Bradley Timepiece.

Advice on dealing with inaccessible forms - Graham Page talks about his experience trying to obtain accessible information from the DWP. Plus news of a new tactile watch.

Peter White talks to Graham Page about his recent experience of trying to access a Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) form sent to him by IT services company ATOS. We look at who is responsible for making the information accessible and Barrister Catherine Casserley explains the legal position.

Ian Macrae reviews a new tactile watch, The Bradley Timepiece. The watch uses two magnetised ball-bearings, which sit within a metal groove, to help people tell the time.

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