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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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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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 …
People with a disability are often described in the media using stereotypes. Stereotypes stigmatise groups who are depicted in this shallow manner and affect people's lives. That's why it's important that we change the ways we talk about people with a disability to respect the person, and not make disability a focus of our attention. …
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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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Many Australian organisations and business, as diverse as AFL Australia, Government departments, and Lifeline are developing or implementing Disability Action Plans (DAP) also known as an Accessibility Action Plan (AAP). Those organisations realise they need to change what they do to be more fair, and to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act (1992). Your radio …
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So you want to change the way your organisation includes people with a disability, indigenous people, women or another disadvantaged group who need a voice? A good place to start, according to Clements, Spinks and Phillips in the Equal Opportunities Handbook (2009) is by changing what YOU personally do. Firstly, you need to learn about …
Sometimes screen readers used by vision-impaired people have trouble with digital documents. Vision Australia's Access Consultants Pierre Frederiksen and Leona Zumbo have developed a Digital Accessibility Toolbar that you can add to Word to help realise the dream! "An innovation that revolutionises the ease and speed of creating accessible documents in Microsoft Word, the Document …
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In my work as an advocate for PWD in community radio, I have heard many times from vision impaired and blind producers the need for documentation to be compatible with screenreaders. The Roundtable on Information Access for PWDÂ provides some great resources and services for organisations seeking to make their websites and documentation accessible to a …
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