Stella Young, Australian comedian and disability rights activist, once gave a famous TED talk. In it, she said, “Living with a disability is nothing compared to living with exclusion.”
Accessibility
Why you need accessible marketing to increase engagement with your brand
With 1 in 5 Australians living with some form of disability, many people need accessible digital and print material. But if your marketing material is hard to read or fails to optimise for assistive technologies, you’re excluding a huge audience. You don’t have to be targeting people with disability to gain from accessible marketing. Accessible marketing broadens your audience and has many other benefits for your brand, too.
Guidance and comfort: the magic of service dogs
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
Job 29:16
Don’t we all go weak at the knees when we see a service dog, usually a seeing-eye dog? Although it may also be one that alerts its deaf owner, pulls their wheelchair, protects them when they have a seizure, reminds them to take their medicines or provides emotional help.
Celebrating Disability and the Importance of Inclusivity
The international Day of People with a Disability is important in reflecting the growth of inclusivity and recognising the achievements of people with a disability.
How to be a better employer by learning from pirates
Ahoy me hearties One-eyed Jack the pirate chief Was a terrible, fearsome, ocean thief. He wore a peg upon one leg, He wore a hook, and a dirty look. One-eyed
Things That Make You Go Hmm…
It was a hot sticky day in Sydney as I walked along the leafy suburban street with my first guide dog Jordie. I was wearing shorts and T-shirt, so I
Create accessible Word documents & improve SEO!
How to create awesome accessible Word documents It should be no surprise that Microsoft Word remains the most widely used document creation platform. The good news is since 2010 the
Up Close and Personal
In the final blog of the Accessibility Is Everywhere series, The Copy Collective contributor Monica Seeber gets up close and personal. She uncovers the reality of living with a disability
The Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy
If you go to the Australian government’s website for the National Transition Strategy you will be greeted with pages of boring government-speak about:
“improved web services”
“the provision of information and services online”
“an important milestone for government”
and “whole-of-government”.
Tiny business helps Federal Government comply with its own policy
Federal Government departments are required to make their websites comply with standards that make them accessible to people with disabilities. Here we introduce our new e-Accessibility training videos Part 1