Community Radio Inclusion Support Project (CRISP)

December 3, 2020December 4, 2020

Digital Transformation Agency: Make your digital content accessible to everyone

Digital content - websites, apps and software of the kind that many community radio stations might use to provide information to listeners and engage subscribers - is often not accessible to everyone. Every year the Digital Inclusion Index looks at the extent of digital access in the Australian population. https://digitalinclusionindex.org.au/the-index-report/report/ They comment that "digital inclusion …

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May 28, 2020November 28, 2020

Global Accessibility Awareness Day, May 21

Making your websites, documents and other written materials accessible, in addtion to installing ramps, is becoming increasingly a requirement of good practice in all sectors. The Australian Government Web Access Guidelines 2.0 compliance in 2018. Global Accessibility Awareness Day aims to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about online access and inclusion. Australian Network on …

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September 9, 2019

All about radio reading at the Media Lab – CBAA conference 2019

Image shows Kim Stewart & Bek Pasqualini with the 2019 CBAA Conference program cover + text containing information outlined above.

Want to develop a Radio Reading Program at your station? Join our hands-on MediaLab session - powered by the CMTO - at the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Conference in Melbourne next month. We're teaming up with the Community Media Training Organisation to help you diversify your audience, prepare your station for volunteers with disabilities, and start a radio …

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September 9, 2019September 9, 2019

Digital accessibility workshops coming up

Digital accessibility is about making your documents and website accessible to the widest range of users. That might include people who are blind, have low vision, are colourblind, have a learning or intellectual disability, or one of the 45% of Australians who have low literacy. Vision Australia are offerring a range of courses to up …

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June 6, 2019June 7, 2019

New resources to help community radio better include people with disability

Covers of new guides: one entitled Access for All with a smiling woman in glasses on the cover. The second cover is called Volunteer Stories and shows two radio producers who are blind in the studio.

Community radio exists for everyone to have a voice. While there are some really great radio producers with disabilities in the community radio sector, a real opportunity for voice still exists for many more! For this reason, the Ability Radio Project's Kim Stewart produced these guides with RPH Australia, the radio network providing Radio Reading …

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May 3, 2019June 3, 2019

Reading radio scripts out loud with a screen reader

In my work with the CMTO I've been developing techniques to best assist learners in community radio who are using screen readers - ie. people who are blind or have a vision impairment. Screen readers convert written text into voice, so that a user who is blind can 'read' the text, from top to bottom …

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March 20, 2019March 20, 2019

From the makers of the DAT now comes the WAT for accessible web dev

Those canny developers at Vision Australia last year made my life easier with their Document Accessibility Toolbar for MS Word that you can find here: https://www.visionaustralia.org/services/digital-access/document-accessibility-toolbar/ Now web developers can try out their Web Accessibility Toolbar for Internet Explorer here: https://www.visionaustralia.org/services/digital-access/resources/web-accessibility-toolbar-ie

January 18, 2019May 4, 2019

“Diversity and inclusion” amongst a range of new one-day training courses from the CMTO

Get some fresh training! The Community Media Training Organisation are offering a range of new short one-day training courses that can be adjusted to suit the accessibility needs of your volunteers. If you are a station manager or decision maker, now is the time to write your applications for training funding. Have a look at …

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January 18, 2019June 3, 2019

Train your volunteers to be “disability aware”

Cartoon people one ow whom is in a wheelchair

The National Disability Co-ordination Officer program and ADCET offers free online training for workers and volunteers for "awareness of disability and the impact that societal attitudes and inherent stigma and discrimination have on the lives of people with disability" called Introduction to Disability Awareness. The course is FREE! They also provide a screen reader version for …

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January 13, 2019June 3, 2019

Checklist for accessible events

Crowd at a 4ZZZ carpark gig, photo by Matt Dennien

Organising an event? What do you need to know about making an event that welcomes everybody? The Australian Digital Inclusion Alliance (ADIA) offer a checklist to help you be sure you've covered all the bases regarding accessible infrastructure, language, catering and tech. ADIA say, "Meetings and events are critical for presentation, consultation, sharing information, gaining …

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