Disability activism can be exciting, empowering, and enormously fulfilling — especially for people with disabilities themselves. It can also be exhausting and frustrating. And to outside observers, newcomers, and longtime
For the 130 members of TelstrAbility, Telstra’s employee representative group for people with a disability, the opening of a pop-up ‘Accessible Tech Experience Lab’ on May 19th – Global Accessibility
Akii was on a high, returning home via Adelaide from Australian Fashion Week in Sydney, where they participated as a model in the "Fix The System Not Me" adaptive clothing
In May last year Samar Bain, 33, moved into a new apartment provided by the NDIS’s specialist disability accommodation (SDA) program. The home, in Heidelberg in Melbourne’s north-east, gives her
Over the next hour, I heard a dozen personal stories, each as enraging and saddening as the next, but all following a similar theme. During their late teens or early
Overall, government data showed there were 1,140 participants stuck in hospital waiting for housing funding or other support before they can be released.
“Assistive technology is a life changer – it opens the door to education for children with impairments, employment and social interaction for adults living with disabilities, and an independent life
"No one is talking about the [more than] 85 per cent of people with disabilities who aren't on the NDIS and many of those people are struggling to get the
The family of a young disabled man abused by a carer has never received an apology or compensation from the service provider, a royal commission has been told.
Despite Scott having an IT-related PhD, and two decades of digital accessibility experience in academic and commercial arenas, it falls on his teenage son to complete the online ticket purchase.
As workplaces strive for inclusivity, some businesses are showing the way forward in how to remove barriers and demonstrate the benefits of employing people with a disability. Mr Basha, who
Some disabilities are "over medicalised". Disabilities are often seen as medical problems when many really arise from a lack of accessibility. As Dylan Alcott recently explained, when he is in
