The Digital Access Show The Digital Access Show

Living with disability in a regional area of Australia comes with some extra challenges. From the lack of services to transport life is different to those who live in the city. Jaceen Ross discusses her experiences of living with disability in regional Queensland.

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Alyce Carter-Edwards is hearing impaired lady who teaches us about the challenges of being hairing impaired.

Nik Cree has run businesses for many years. His current work involves digital marketing and web development. Nik and Narelle discuss the ways that business and people with disability can work together to improve digital accessibility for everyone.

Ever wondered what is required by employers to be a position to employee people with disability? What does a person with disability need to do to be more employable? What are the needs of each and what steps need to be taken to be more inclusive. Rebbecca Jurkiewicz from Chapter One Disability Employment Services talks everything about disability employment services.

How do people with vision impairment navigate? How do they find the shop or the house or other business? They use maps on their phones just like everyone. However, there are some more apps being released that will assist everyone. these apps are based on way finding techniques. Lucy is the usability design lead for one of these apps.

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Laura Garcia and her husband welcomed their baby girl, Eva, into the world 12 years ago. While Eva was a baby she became sick and developed a condition called cortical visual impairment. CVI for short. Eva's eyes work however the illness caused an issue in the cortico-visual area of her brain. So Eva is blind. Eva has been the face of Braille House in Queensland loves reading and playing sport. How does she do it. Assistive technology of course. Hear Laura and Eva's story this week on our podcast.