Resources for community radio to better include people with a disability, because everyone can do community radio!
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021 Every user deserves a first-rate digital experience on the web. Someone with a disability must be able to experience web-based services, content and other digital products with the same successful outcome as those without disabilities. This awareness and commitment to inclusion is the goal of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), …
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Hopefully your station stairs aren't this rickety! You know you have that difficult door to the studio that catches your fingers, or a cracked path that could be a tripping hazard. And there's always the fact that your office is up some stairs with no other way to get access. These problems of accessability might …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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 …
