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Transcript: Dr Scott Hollier talks with Philip Jenkinson about Affordable Access

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You’re listening to a podcast from Media Access Australia. Inclusion through technology.

Philip

I’m speaking with Dr Scott Hollier, Media Access Australia’s Specialist Adviser, Digital Accessibility. And today’s focus is on an exciting new website: affordableaccess.com.au. The purpose of the Affordable Access project is to create an online resource where people with hearing, sight or cognitive disabilities and impairments can find information on low-cost software and devices that support their everyday needs, which were put together by Media Access Australia with support provided by ACCAN, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. Scott, first up, when did research first commence for this project?

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Transcript: Heidi Laidler talks with Philip Jenkinson about user experience design

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You’re listening to a podcast from Media Access Australia. Inclusion through technology.

Philip

I’m speaking with Heidi Laidler, a user experience designer with Media Access Australia. User experience design is the process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility and overall satisfaction provided by an interaction between a user and product, service or piece of communication. And in the web and digital space, this is becoming ever more critical for organisations to engage staff, consumers, members or other stakeholders.

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Transcript: Dr Scott Hollier talks with Philip Jenkinson about Cloud Accessibility

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You’re listening to a podcast from Media Access Australia. Inclusion through technology.

Philip

I’m speaking with Dr Scott Hollier, the digital accessibility director for Media Access Australia. The cloud seems to be everywhere these days, and I’m not talking about the weather of course, but cloud computing. And with an ever increasing reliance on mobile devices with limited on-board storage, the cloud is bound to keep growing.

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