Accessibility

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Sciences & Technology

Kids with disability are gamers too

Working with an eight-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, researchers have co-designed a video game controller to provide more opportunities for fun and social connection

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Politics & Society

It’s time to make waves in beach accessibility

Excluding people with disability from beach culture is both unfair and unlawful. Australia could be a world leader in making beaches accessible to people of all abilities

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Arts & Culture

Empowering disabled talent in the Australian screen industry

A new report highlights discrimination and inaccessibility for disabled film and television workers, creating missed opportunities for the industry

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Health & Medicine

Making Australia’s most liveable city more inclusive

Melbourne is a great city to live in, but it can do better for people with a disability by making it more accessible and inclusive

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Politics & Society

Measuring the value of Australian volunteers

Uncertain NDIS funding for volunteers means some organisations are scaling back, but now there’s an effort to measure the value of volunteers for people with disabilities

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Politics & Society

Information accessibility and the right to know

The UN’s Access to Information Day marks the importance of promoting accessible information so that everyone, including those with a disability, can make informed decisions about their lives

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Sciences & Technology

Laser device will see what the eyes cannot

Technology will help the blind and vision-impaired read the terrain around them, more accurately

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