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You’ve been told you need to communicate with people with different literacy skills.Reading public information, or information to access government services, health information, legal information, how to make a complaint, etc should never be a test of ones reading skills.You’ve been told the data. Yes, 44% of the adult Australian population do not have the literacy to […]

Literacy is your ability to read, understand and use the written information in a meaningful way.Digital literacy is being able to do the same with websites, apps and electronic devices that now surround us, including being able to navigate them. There are so many (incorrect) assumptions about the skills and knowledge of people in our […]

A new article on 27 November 2023 from the Centre for Universal Design Australia (CUDA) discusses the importance of including people with intellectual disabilities in research. Read it here. Many studies use research methods that are not designed to enable people with disabilities, and specifically people with intellectual disability and other marginalised groups to participate. […]

A news article from the ABC from July this year raises an important issue for people with print disabilities. ‘Electricity bills unreadable for thousands of Australians amid a cost-of-living crisis’ by Nas Campanella and Emily Laurence. 27 July 2023.The ABC article points out that many utilities companies send out their bills in a PDF format that […]