The Digital Access Show
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Season Two
Tara Shekede shares how Me Plus More is helping people with intellectual disabilities build confidence online with simple, accessible tools for safer digital experiences.
Transcript – Tara Shekedeshares how
Jen Engels of https://www.youtube.com/@acertaineye opens up about her journey with severe vision impairment, how it shaped her passion for digital accessibility, and why she believes positivity, and a good laugh, can light the way through any challenge.
It’s the Season 2 Finale! DASAT’s Allan Parker and Mark Muscat join Narelle to wrap up The Digital Access Show for this year. They dive into the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 review, digital accessibility shifts across the EU, and what’s next for the show!
This week’s guest is Jeb Ryan from Heart-Led Support, a company that focuses on helping men with their mental health and disabilities. Jeb dives into how Heart-Led Support came around, as well as his meaningful opinions on what needs to be considered in this area.
Nick Hosking from KN Website Design is passionate about opening up the internet to everyone. He has joined the Do Better Campaign to ensure that everyone can read, access and understand the content on the website.
David Oram from Atomic Web Strategy shares what his company is all about, what the Do Better Campaign is, and what you need to consider when building a digitally accessible website.
Do Better is a campaign for organisations ready to serve every customer, including people with disability. It is ensuring that digital accessibility becomes part of the standard operating procedure.
Alex Bey, Managing Director of Meet Aandi talks about why digital accessibility should include empathy, innovation, and action!
Belinda Vesey-Brown talks about all things digital accessibility through her experience of working for Meet Aandi. Belinda talks about her passion for ensuring that videos and are correctly captioned and audio-described.
Vickie Anderson from Vickie Anderson & Associates has worked in the disability sector for many years. She specialises in working with the vision impaired to make their daily lives including cooking easier.
Meredith Prain, an experienced Allied Health Professional and Researcher, discusses the challenges that people who are deaf blind have in managing communication.
Simone is on a mission to educate everyone about digital accessibility. She is passionate to educate about the social model of disability. Not the medical model. Hear about Simone’s work.
Sharon has worked in the Disability Sector for many years and the trainer of NDIS Auditors. Our question to Sharon? Where does digital accessibility fit into the NDIS Practice Manual. Find the answer on today’s episode.
Craig Shanahan, owner of The Blind Chef Cafe, and inspiring motivational speaker, goes into depth about how he made The Blind Chef Cafe truly accessible for all disabilities
Lee-Anne Reuber is bringing fitness to the community at large including people with disabilities. Hear the challenges that Lee-Anne has in ensuring that the mobile phone app is accessible to everyone.
What happens to the brain and body and feelings when a person is trying to do some that they haven’t done before or find a task very hard? Allan Parker OAM from Peak Performance Development has the answers and the solution.
Tracy Whitelaw, Chief Digital Officer for Local Government Association of Queensland, discusses the senior management role when implementing digital accessibility and the web content accessibility guidelines?
Quentin Christensen from NV Access dives into the Non-Visual Desktop Access screen reader and shares his thoughts about digital accessibility.
Cherie Patterson has severe vision impairment. She has never let it stop her from meeting her goals. What has changed in the work environment in regards to digital accessibility?
What do you know about Tourette’s? What are the communication issues that a person who has Tourette’s lives with?
Joseph Lee works in the Disability Sector as a regional team leader for a NDIS Provider. He is also an A-League Ref? He also lives with disability. Find out how Joseph manages to be so successful.
Paul Price is our guest on this week’s episode. Paul has lived with disability all his life. He discusses how changes in legislation have affected his ability to manage.
Hilton Luke from Queensland Department of Primary Industry has been working on a project to implement digital accessibility to their products. What are the challenges that they have experienced?
Luna Rose has no vision. Ever wonder how she votes and what are the barriers that she has to voting?
The Understandable and Robust Principles are the last two principles in this series to cover. Mark Muscat from DASAT discusses each of the principles and what to look out for.
Tommy Trout from disBranded and inclusive AF has worked in the Community Services Sector for over 20 years. He has talked to many different people and has some great thoughts about why incorporating digital accessibility.
Mark Muscat talks Conformance. How do you ensure that your website meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines? Who should you talk to? Mark Muscat from DASAT has the answers.
Chris Kerrisk from Cerge talks about his experience when he implemented digital accessibility into Cerge.
Lisa Young from ieye Low Vision Services is a rehabilitation counsellor and orientation and mobility expert. She has been working in the disability sector for many years and has seen the barriers that inaccessibility, digitally and physically can cause.
Mark Muscat from DASAT discusses the Operability Principle of WCAg. What is it and why is it important.
Kim Amor and Nick Hosking from KN Website Design actively incorporate digital accessibility into their websites. Hear how they do it and the why.
Great websites are built by teams, including designers, developers, marketers, testers, and business owners. This week, Tracey Hayim from Metamorphosis Design shares how digital accessibility and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines help create websites that work for everyone.
Transcript – Tracey Hayim
The TechAbility Team ran the Future Forward Conference in February. It was a well attended conference where we heard about the future of technology in the NDIS area. Digital Accessibility was well discussed. Hear from the various companies who are attending regarding digital accessibility and what is happening in their business.
Aaron Orme lives with Retinosa Pigmentosa. How does it affect his life. How does he handle the challenge of employment? What lessons has he learnt?
Shiralee McKitrick lives with a rare disability and, alongside her partner Simone, is raising two sons with disability. Their journey has changed the way they see communication, inclusion, and digital accessibility. Hear their powerful story.
Noone ever links cybersecurity and digital accessibility. It is just not on the forefront of people’s minds.
Luke Irwin from Aegis Cyber is a cyber security specialist. He leads a great discussion on digital accessibility and the challenges of cybersecurity for people with disability.
Mark Warren is our guest on episode 2 of The Digital Access Show. Mark talks about perceptions and how they affect everyone in their every day life. How does it affect communication?
Anita Gover from TechAbilty is running a NDIS Techability Conference, Future Forward 2025, from 24 February, 2025 to 25 February 2025. As she was preparing the marketing tools an issue was found that could have caused physical reactions for some people. Listen to what it was and how it was resolved.
The Digital Access Show guest this week is Peter Archer. Peter is the founder of Beyond Vision. Peter, himself, lives with Stargaardts. Stargaardts is a bit like looking at pixels according to Peter. Hear how Peter has managed communication with his clients along with the perceptions of others when they realise what Peter and his wife are building.
Season Two of the Digital Access Show kicks off with Allan Parker OAM from Peak Performance Development talking about perceptions, beliefs and assumptions. How do they affect communication?