Mike Wald leads research into accessible technologies in the Learning Societies Lab, ECS and has advised HEFCE, JISC, BECTA and Universities on enhancing learning through the use of technologies. He established the University's MSc in Computer Based Learning and Centre for Enabling and Learning Technologies (CELT) in 1994 and was involved in the establishment of the University's Disability and Assistive Technology Services. He is a founder member of the International Liberated Learning Consortium that includes other leading universities (e.g. MIT) and organisations (e.g. IBM) and is investigating how speech recognition can make teaching and learning more accessible. Dr Wald and his team are currently developing a system to make multimedia web resources (e.g. podcasts) easier to access, search, manage, and exploit by supporting the creation of synchronised notes, bookmarks, tags, images, links and text captions.Contact Mike Wald

E.A. Draffan's career began as a Speech and Language Therapist spending eight years as the District Speech and Language Therapist at a group of London Hospitals. The work involved supporting disabled people with a wide range of communication difficulties. Having left the National Health Service, she then worked in schools and colleges, specialising in the support of those with Special Needs whilst encouraging the use of assistive technologies (AT). A Winston Churchill Fellowship provided the chance to see how centres of AT were set up in the United States. This resulted in ten years work at the University of Sussex, building and running a regional AT Centre, whilst liaising with others to introduce the concepts of equal access to teaching and learning for those with disabilities. She went on to work with TechDis, with Professor Paul Blenkhorn and now the University of Southampton.Contact E.A. Draffan

Seb Skuse is a Technical Project Assistant and has a 1st Class Information Technology in Organisations Degree. He has been lead developer on many JISC agile open source projects since 2009. He has extensive experience of web based user interface design and has also developed ATbar, the accessibility toolbar for websites and iPhone apps for alternative formats.Contact Seb Skuse

Yunjia Li graduated from East China University of Science and Technology in July 2007 and now has a 1st Class Computer Science Degree and a distinction in MSc Web Technologies, as well as extensive experience of web based user interface design. He was also Synote’s lead developer since the JISC MACFOB project in 2008.Contact Yunjia Li

Russell Newman has a MSc Web Science and BSc IT and Organisations and is now a postgraduate in full-time research in Web and Internet Science as well as running his own business and supporting many accessibility projects. Russell has been involved in the work around LexDis, Web2Access, ATbar and parts of all the websites run by the team. He has extensive experience in IT support, web design and systems development.Contact Russell Newman

Chris Phethean who graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science is currently undertaking the MSc component of a Web Science course. Upon completion of the MSc he will advance to 3 years of research for a PhD in Web Science. Whilst completing his undergraduate degree, he worked on the team's accessibility projects and developed the AccessTools pen drive with the options for several languages, using free and portable apps.Contact Chris Phethean