Community Radio Inclusion Support Project (CRISP)
Resources for community radio to better include people with a disability, because everyone can do community radio!
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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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 …
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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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 …
People with disabilities, mental health issues and organisations are invited to write a submission to the National Arts and Disability Strategy, deadline is December 3. https://www.arts.gov.au/have-your-say/national-arts-and-disability-strategy You can fill in a survey, or make a formal submission. Surveys here: people with disability including a mental health condition organisations carers of people with disability They have …
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As I am fond of saying, "you don't know what you don't know". Thankfully when it comes to accessibility of our station buildings, documents and communications, others have done the work for us with these easy to use checklists: AusCamps Association have made this fantastic resource for assessing access that includes background info on legislative …
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