Community Radio Inclusion Support Project (CRISP)
Resources for community radio to better include people with a disability, because everyone can do community radio!
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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If you want to create accessible documents, websites or digital newsletters for your community radio station, you might benefit from checking out these online courses.  Accessibility means making sure your content is available to as many people as possible, increasing audience, participation and social justice. Become an #A11y today! Some free online courses: Udacity have a …
In recent weeks I've been exploring the wonderful (and hitherto mostly unknown to me) world of accessible word documents. In MS Word, using document styles, headings and alternative descriptions (alt-tags) on images makes your document more readable for those using screenreaders, as well as more consistently formatted for everyone else. In addition, formatting for accessibility …
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Community Radio Inclusion Support Project (CRISP) 