Disability Freedom
Disability Freedom is a Church Pages' website that we launched with Hoi Fei Kwok, who is a mum of a boy with Down's Syndrome. For some time she'd been frustrated at trying to find after-school lessons or clubs willing to include children with disabilities.
We also felt strongly about this issue, and wanted to address it, but there never seemed to be enough time to do it. So when we were introduced to Hoi Fei it felt like a real blessing as the website was able to become a reality.
The aim of the Disability Freedom site is to provide an easy to search directory that offers information about accessible and inclusive activities, classes, clubs and holiday accommodation for children with disabilities. Blessed by Hoi Fei's experience, we were able to create a user-journey that reflects the needs of the demographic.
How the website was designed and built
As a parent of a child with learning needs Hoi Fei was able to direct us on what needed to be achieved. From her brief we were able to design and build the site, focusing on the the user journey so that information could be quickly found. We designed the logo and branding for the website, and sourced appropriate video scenes that reflect the Disability Freedom's target audience.
Church Page's Directory Module enables the whole of the UK to be searched for inclusive classes and groups, and our attribute filter enables the user to filter the activities by:
- Mainstream or Special
- Type of activity
- Disability catered for
- Accessibility
- Parking
- Childcare and Respite, and
- Age.
Once the site became highly populated we divided the UK into different areas to improve usability.
Visitors to the site are also able to suggest a listing, and each listing has comprehensive information included in it.
The finished website benefits from:
- A contemporary responsive website that is strongly branded and reflects the demographic.
- An easy to navigate website that enables inclusive activities to be found quickly..
- A website that is easy to manage.
What else did Church Pages do?
We optimised the site and added in Disability Freedom's Instagram feed.
How did the website go live?
As we had purchased the domain, putting the site live was simple.
Conclusion
It was such a privilege to be able to work on this project. Hoi Fei has been tireless in her work on populating the site and we are pleased with the warm response it has received.