Accessibility

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

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

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

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

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

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

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