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May 2008 – Working on the noisy, frenetic trading desk at Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s London offices on Fleet Street earlier this decade, Kieran Prior and John Yeatts, two bright and ambitious 20-somethings from very different worlds, became close friends. Prior, a gregarious, wisecracking proprietary trader from the gritty outer suburbs of Manchester, took a liking to the soft-spoken Yeatts, a first-year financial analyst and native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Though Prior, then 23, was just a year older than Yeatts when they met in 2002, he enjoyed dispensing practical advice, teasing the American about his Saturday night dates and taking him out for pints of beer after work.
Yeatts returned the favor. …
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We are delighted to announce that academy award winning actor, Daniel Day-Lewis has agreed to become patron of the Priority Trust. It is a significant achievement for the Trust to secure the support of such an accomplished and well regarded professional who has great empathy with our cause:
“In 1989 when working on the film MY LEFT FOOT in which I played the writer Christy Brown, I became acutely aware of the monumental difficulties facing physically disabled children, both every day and in growing up to be who they wanted to be.
Today there are still many thousands of disabled children who do not have the right mobility equipment that will give them the independence to achieve their potential. In Kieran Prior, the …
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How do you ensure your website is accessible to all? This should be important for every organisation publishing a website, but particularly for Priority as our purpose is to support disabled people.
However the answer is less obvious and asking a variety of web developers what guidelines exist and what standards need to be met, produced a variety of answers. Most pointed us to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendations, which provide best practice for most websites. These then suggest compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). However, once you’ve got this far, you find that there are 3 levels of compliance (A, AA, AAA). So which do you go for?
To find a solution, Priority enlisted the help of …
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