____ to information and services means that everyone should have the ____ access. This includes access to: the ____, ____, and ____. Allowances should also be made for ____ groups such as those with disabilities. Equal access should be given to ____ to be as ____ as possible. Some protected groups of people are: ____ and ____ people; ____ women or women on ____; people with ____; all ____; ____. The ____ 2010 gives ____ to all people. It combines over 116 pieces of ____. People must be ____ ____ when ____ IT services and information such as ____ and ____. Some areas the act covers are: employers need to make ____ ____ for people with ____ and businesses can't ask about ____ or disabilities before offering a job. ____ is the difference between those who have and don't have ____, and includes: internet ____ speed, mobile phone ____, and ____ for ____. There is also a divide between other groups of people such as the ____ and ____. In December 2018, a street in the village of Bamfurlong, Gloucestershire averaged 0.14 Mb/s, compared to Abdon Avenue, Birmingham averaged 265 Mbps. Often places in the ____ only have access to internet slower than 1 Mb/s. People with ____ will struggle to get video services such as Netflix, use ____ like Skype, play online video games, and use ____. This will also affect people who may be starting a business as they may find it harder to set up a website, sharing photos and videos will be harder, may be ____ to respond to customer queries, and they may not have ____ to newer cloud services. ____ is treating certain categories of people ____. Computer ____ can now make life-changing ____. A police computer system “The Harm Assessment Risk Tool” uses a criminal’s offending history, ____ and ____ to ____ their risk of offending. This has been ____ ____ by the human rights group Liberty. Benefits to Organisations: ____ websites allow businesses to be more easily ____. ____ can ____ better with ____. Company websites can allow them to have customers ____ in the ____. Benefits to Society: ____ local ____ together. Community ____ pages offer a ____ for people to share information about their ____ and ____. ____ ____ allows people such as the ____ to feel less ____ and ____ with ____. Professional ____ & ____: The professional body for IT is the BCS (____). Their code of conduct says that ____ must not ____ and must ____ people ____. There are standards to help people access ____ and services. Standards such as ____ and ____ help blind people. For web content, there is the ____ (WCAG). WCAG guidelines include: use ____ text for images so they can be read out loud, use ____ with video, use ____ of audio interviews, allow webpages to be ____ by keyboard only, do not use ____ images. Net Neutrality: We access the internet through ____ (ISP) such as BT, Sky and Virgin. It is possible for ISPs to ____ data. They could restrict a video streaming service. They could ____ access to a new app. Treating all data the same is called ____. In the UK most ISPs have signed up to the Open Internet Code of Practice which ____ data equally. Net neutrality has many ____ for customers. All ISPs offer the same internet service so customers choose their ISP based on: ____, ____, ____, ____. Without net neutrality, services like video streaming could have ____. Net neutrality treats all data the same as it passes through the ____. This means that: ISPs must ____ heavy users of video and gaming the same as those who just browse the web, small start-up organisations are ____ to innovate as all data is treated the same, Internet access is often seen as a ____ like electricity or water.

Learning Aim C - Equal Access

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