Disabled Access to Computing is a non profit organisation established in 1994. You may well have known of us before as DABBS (Disabled Access to Bulletin Board Systems). For details of our current core staff please see our Staff Page. Most of our staff are themselves disabled and we formed DA2C to help others with similar problems.

Our original brief was to assist disabled people in gaining access to, and training on, computer equipment and to work towards enabling clients to gain employment by virtue of their computer skills.

• We can provide a disabled person with computer equipment.
• We can provide training for disabled computer users.
• We can provide advice and technical support to charity organisations regarding computer systems.
• We can offer a web site building service and handle the hosting of your web site and registration of your web address.
• We can conduct an accessibility audit of an existing web site to ensure it complies with current legislation and advise on any changes that may be required.
• We aim to promote the employment of disabled people including the use of modern telecommunications systems to facilitate working from home.

The sample Case Histories may help you decide if we can help you.

There are a number of ways you can help us.

• Firstly you can let us know if you or your organisation is disposing of redundant computer equipment*. We can collect this equipment and it will be passed to disabled people. We make no charge for our services.
• You might be able to offer skills which we can deploy toward specific projects.
• You can make financial donations, specifying the beneficiary if you wish. For example you might pay for a copy of Microsoft Windows to be supplied to a particualar client. This option is occasionally of help to employers of our disabled clients*.

*See our Donations & Disposals Page for further information.

If you are a disabled person, or know of such a person, who requires assistance with computer equipment you can write to the address at the top of this page or click on the e-mail button on the left.

If you represent a charity or not-for-profit organisation requiring technical support with computer systems you can write to the address at the top of this page or click on the e-mail button on the left.

If you represent a charity or not-for-profit organisation requiring assistance with the creation of a web site you should take a look at our Internet Support Services Page. Alternatively you can write to the address at the top of this page, use the enquiries form to ask us about a specific project or click on the e-mail button on the left.

If you have any comments to make regarding this web site or any of the DA2C services please feel free to use the link to the Feedback Form or the e-mail button on the left. We do welcome any suggestions from our clients or others with an interest in supporting disabled peple in the community