At AccEase we believe that good communication and good access to information is vital for you, as a disabled person, to be comfortably who you are, and to take part in the community on your own terms.
When we say "All the information for all the people all the time" it reflects who we are and what we do. We work at information accessibility, helping organisations make their information accessible to all the people, all the time.
Disabled people understand best what works for you, which is just one reason why we value highly all the disabled people in our expert team.
As New Zealand citizens you have the right to accessible information. The New Zealand Human Rights Act, the Disability Strategy and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities all support this right.
The good news is that expecting accessible information is not expecting the impossible. NZ Sign language is now a national language, large print is easily produced, and new technologies make accessible text and audio easier to produce.
The 'Plain English' and 'Easy Read' initiatives also make information clearer, in different ways. All of this is also useful for all sorts of people who might not consider themselves disabled.
Expect accessible information and complain when you don't get it!
The Web Accessibility page has information about the Internet accessibility you can expect. It also has hints and ways to help you get the website owner to improve difficult-to-use sites.
Please tell us about the good, the bad and the ugly you meet in your information world.
We love praising people for doing things right, revealing the problems that inaccessible information causes, and promoting best practice.
You can also read and post comments on Robyn's blog - Low Visionary.
