Resources for community radio to better include people with a disability, because everyone can do community radio!
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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Do you live within 5kms of 3CR radio in Melbourne? The Community Radio Accessibility Project is asking for your votes because, "The station needs up-to-date handrails, doors, ramps, taps and other things so that existing volunteers, new recruits and our wonderful guests can access the station more easily and safely." Pick My Project is a …
Ableism is something that affects people with disabilities on a recurring basis. The experience of disability is often complicated by ableist interpretations of the embodied experience of those experiencing disability, at times this prompts those who live with disability to view their own person by a pathologised lens. Gregor Wolbring raises that ableism is often left …
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So you've made a kickass website for your radio show, podcast or station. It does everything you want it to do. But did you know that to some of your users your website could be invisible? To others, your website might be confusing and hard to navigate because of cognitive disability or low literacy? The …
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 PWD provides some great resources and services for organisations seeking to make their websites and documentation accessible to a …
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Take a look at this lovely visualisation by Equal Reality of the diversity of their workforce: https://equalreality.com/BlogPosts/DiversityReport_20180620 You can do an analysis of your own organisation using their template at the bottom of the linked page. Find out how diverse your organisation is!
Sometimes learning and teaching community radio can involve lots of text heavy reading materials (codes, rules and regulations, processes at the station). For people with reading issues, who have a learning disability or are just out of practice, this can be hard work and presents a barrier to learning that can contribute to non-completion. Universal …
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"Your choice of language has an impact on the way people with disability feel and are perceived in society. It is important that you are aware of the meaning behind the words you use when talking to, referring to or working with people with disability. Disrespectful language can make people feel hurt, excluded and can …
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Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD4yUqKuNvY&t=160s
The national community radio training provider, the Community Media Training Organisation, is seeking resources to help their trainers better include people with diverse needs. Check out their page here: http://www.cmto.org.au/what-we-do/accessibility-resources
