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I heard the new minister (Minister Rishworth) this February 2025 when she launched the latest National Disability Strategy update. She specifically included that the government will use data & evidence.Creating content in Easy Read is NOT following the evidence. This has been known for 20 years. The latest literature review presented in December 2024 reinforced […]

Health Literacy — some personal reflections.The current state of health literacy and communication in Australia. Who is it for?I was at a specialist appointment with my daughter (who is non-verbal) a few years ago. During our discussion the specialist told me I had a ‘high level of health literacy’. It was the first time I had heard the […]

The Accessible & Inclusive Tourism Conference. AITCAP 2024 Melbourne/NaarmThat’s right, people with disabilities like going on holidays too! It does make the holiday heaps more fun if it’s accessible and inclusive. So last month there was a conference all about that. Access Easy English was one of the exhibitors.Cathy and I met many tourism operators […]

We met Simone Wisniewski from TTC Global at the Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Melbourne meeting in May 2024.Damien and I presented our website, www.readee.com.au to web developers and designers who had never before considered that far too many people do not have digital access (1 in 4 adult Australian are excluded) or digital literacy to […]