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NADO - National Association of Disability Officers

NADO is now called NADP - National Association of Disability Practitioners

First voluntary, then freelance work, 2001 - 2012.

[This site is no longer under my control.]

The story

NADO is an organization for disability workers in UK academic institutions. The website is primarily aimed at its members.

The Members Area - password protected and therefore invisible to the public - constitutes the largest part of the site.

The code

XHTML, CSS, standard-compliant, and accessible.

The design

A simple design were 100% accessibility was priority.

At first this was only a quick fix for an organization that needed a website urgently. Since this project was originally undertaken in my spare time, I put less effort into good looks but concentrated on making the information available to the public, or more specifically to NADO members, who are the main audience of this site.

Update October 2002

This site has grown and demanded better site navigation. I took this opportunity to try a tableless design using a simple CSS layout, which also works in the notorious Netscape 4 browsers. It was a practise run for some bigger sites I intend to convert to a CSS layout in the near future.

Update May 2003

The site has moved from its previous domain name (nado.ac.uk) to nado.org.uk, following NADO's incorporation as a company limited by guarantee. The site is now hosted by myself on my excellent developer account at Gradwell.

Update November 2004

Complete redesign: A new look combined with a standard-compliant CSS layout. Support for Netscape 4 has finally been dropped, but the contents is still accessible in all browsers. New: a discussion forum for NADO members.

[Screenshot of NADO website]

Update January 2007

NADO is now called NADP - National Association of Disability Practitioners
Complete redesign: Three-column layout plus styleswitcher.

[Screenshot of NADO website]