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25.01.2022 This article examines the rationale for organisations to address accessibility. It includes tangible and intangible benefits, and the risks of not addressing accessibility adequately. It explores how accessibility can: Drive Innovation: Accessibility features in products and services often solve unanticipated problems. Enhance Your Brand: Diversity and inclusion efforts so important to business success are accelerated with a clear, well-integrated accessibility commitment.... Extend Market Reach: The global market of people with disabilities is over 1 billion people with a spending power of more than $6 trillion. Accessibility often improves the online experience for all users. Minimise Legal Risk: Many countries have laws requiring digital accessibility, and the issue is of increased legal concern. https://www.w3.org/WAI/business-case/

25.01.2022 What does being disabled really mean? This is an interesting question as culturally it means someone who is not able to do a particular thing. At any given time this could be any one of us, consider having a broken leg and not being able to walk or carrying too many shopping bags from the car and not being able to open the door. In both of these examples, there are environmental factors at play that could alleviate this "disability" such as using a crutch or an automatic d...oor. Does this mean that the environment is not suitable for the person, or the person is not suitable for the environment? Disability is going to impact everyones lives at some point, but this doesn't mean that the onus is on that person for "being disabled" as much as it should be on the environment not enabling that person to do a particular thing.

24.01.2022 [Shout Out] to our partners Vision Australia for their continued work in improving the accessibility knowledge and abilities of Australian organisations. Anyone in the health sector should really be at the forefront of accessible communication to ensure they are best serving all of their customers. Good on BUPA for wanting to improve their service. #worldmoreaccessible http://ed.gr/cu38i

23.01.2022 There are plenty of current and up coming technological advances to be excited about in the accessibility field. The desire for everyone to find a quicker easier way to do everyday tasks have lead towards technology advancing faster than ever before. It is great to see these sorts of advancements, not only not leave people with disabilities behind, but actually help them to interact with the world like anybody else. #worldmoreaccessible http://ed.gr/cu38g

22.01.2022 "Through our continued partnership with Vision Australia, we will be launching a number of short accessibility webinars over the coming months focusing on some of the most asked questions in the broader accessibility space. We will be joining experts from across the accessibility field and making the most of a community that is being forced to be more digital every day. Watch this space for more information coming soon..."

21.01.2022 [Did you know] The estimated number of people with a vision impairment in the world is 285 million, 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision*. That is a lot of people. Also consider our ageing population, where age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a real issue for anyone with a family history of AMD, people over the age of 75 and smokers. With us living longer there is only going to be more of us with AMD in the future. ... * Stats from World Health Organisation

20.01.2022 [Reasons why we should all be more inclusive #3] When asked, people with disabilities (PWD) say that between 75% 80% of their customer experiences are failures.* *Based on focus group and surveyed feedback generated by The Return on Disability Group Inc. beginning in 2008. Sample size = 753 PWD in Canada and U.S

18.01.2022 We would like to introduce you to "Access-a-Bill" or we call him "Bill" for short. It gets lonely on the road traveling around Australia training and sharing insights with anyone who is interested in learning more about Accessibility. Bill is an Australian Platypus and has been around awhile (since Expo 88 actually), longer than me, just quietly! In that time there has been so much technical progress and a societal shift towards inclusion. ... Now Bill plans on meeting with all trainees personally and sharing their stories on what they are doing to make the world more accessible. Let's 'expo'se the true heroes! #taggedpdf

17.01.2022 We love any opportunity to talk about Accessibility and the importance of it. "To us accessibility is about making content available to everyone" What does it mean to you?

15.01.2022 [Reasons why we should all be more inclusive #2] "As global organisations begin to value the unique methods that people with disabilities (PWD) employ to navigate a world not built for their functionality, facts are clear: PWD and their Friends & Family represent 73% of consumers whose identity and functionality are critical to making purchasing decisions.... Source: The Global Economics of Disability September 2020

11.01.2022 The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is a good initiative from the European Commission where they are initiating change from the standards level. eg. The CE compliance needed to get products to market now have some frameworks around the full product experience. Not only do electronics need accessibility features themselves, but their labelling, customer service help lines and even written instructions will all need to be considered for their level of inclusion. It is these ...large scale requirements that lead from the front and bring accessibility awareness to the manufacturing process, where everyone benefits from these changes. https://ed.gr/c0nxv See more

09.01.2022 Quite often sighted people are making decisions for those with low vision and without having walked a mile in their shoes, we often fall short. This is a great article written by Robyn who is someone with low vision about the challenges associated with our increasing digital life. She makes some really key points here including this one that I think is the most important. It is that technologists, policy-makers and researchers don’t know enough and don’t share or co-ordinate... their work. "The battle for online accessibility, where the technology can be more important than the end-user experience, is a case in point. While this is possibly true for all user experience, for disabled people it is more critical as there is less choice for information access. The technology should never come before the people." #TaggedPDF #MakingTheWorldMoreAccessible http://ed.gr/b7ff5

09.01.2022 [But Why?] When it comes to digital we all know that smaller means faster. Websites load faster, documents download faster and screen readers navigate faster with smaller data sizes. Sometimes we are requested to make a high res document accessible, even when the low res version is available. These documents generally have more layers, larger pictures and more things that can go wrong. Our advice in this instance is always to consider the end user. People don't want to dow...nload a 10 page document that is 40MB, even if they do, their computer may not render everything correctly. Throw a screen reader running in the background into the mix and no amount of tagging is going to get the information across. Who says size doesn't matter!

08.01.2022 One of the key benefits of digital communication is that each end of the conversation can be produced or presented in the way that works best for that person. eg a person with low vision can use voice only to communicate with a deaf individual who can read and respond in text only. With Twitter being one of the largest social media platforms it is extremely important that they can consider their social responsibility to allow their consumers to share information in the way that works for them. It is great to see them establish a dedicated team to ensure the accessibility of their new and existing features. https://ed.gr/c0nxp

07.01.2022 The South Australian Government is proactive when it comes to ensuring everyone is considering accessibility. Our partner Vision Australia had one of their digital experts (Josh Crawford) present at their recent Lunch and Learn. See more details on the link below and register for future events. https://ed.gr/cz0mi

05.01.2022 What do you think the role of disability advocates without lived experience is compared to those with lived experiences of disability? I worry as a young able bodied white male that I am giving advice based on what I think is in the best interest of others who will be using the documents that we create. Whenever I get a chance, I make an effort to validate my advice with those with lived experience. I feel like we can always achieve more together when raising awareness around accessibility.

05.01.2022 [Blindness and sight loss to double by 2050] It seems unreal in an age where medical advances mean we can fix a lot of minor conditions that the rate of sight loss would increase so significantly in the next 30 years. As this article outlines a major contributor to these numbers will be population growth as well as our aging population. There are simply going to be so many more people in the world that the sheer numbers have to increase. ... Digital accessibility is not going away anytime soon, and we are yet to see any substantial research to the lasting damage that screen time will have on our vision long term. If anything digital accessibility is only going to become more important as the need for different options to consume information grows. https://ed.gr/czfca

03.01.2022 We have to change our language and not describe people as "Visually Impaired". They are people with "Low Vision". I was corrected once by a blind man and it has stuck with me ever since and I have been mindful of my language. When we say someone is "Visually Impaired" we are saying they are ugly. It is just a simple thing and I think we all need to say "People with Low Vision" instead. It is a lot more respectful.

03.01.2022 Technology can be so transformational for people with disabilities. This is a small step forward help kids with vision impairment see the people they’re talking with. There is so much communication that is done with facial expression and body language and this tech helps these kids learn these lessons like sighted kids and I think this is great. http://ed.gr/b6979

02.01.2022 TaggedPDF catches up with Costa Vasili from EthnoLink Language Services. We are both on the same mission working within the disability sector helping to make documents accessible to everyone. http://ed.gr/b02ng

02.01.2022 What is blindness and low vision? In this article our partner Vision Australia outlines the proper descriptions for each with some stats on number of people with blindness. http://ed.gr/b698e

01.01.2022 [Shout Out] Good on you Canada for holding organisations to account and recognising that it isn't just government related organisations that interact with the entire community. "Canadian businesses are facing a January 1, 2021 deadline to make websites and web content accessible. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) requires organizations with 20 or more employees to file a compliance audit in advance of this filing deadline. This law is a meaningful ...step forward for the 22% of Canadians, or 6.2 million people, with at least one disability who face barriers in the digital world via inaccessible websites and web content." #worldmoreaccessible https://ed.gr/czfb1