Category: Accessibility
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How to be an awesome and inclusive presenter
Making presentations accessible – from design to delivery Presenting is something almost all communications pros will likely need to do at some point in their career. From client pitches, to presenting data back to teams, to sharing best practice at industry events, it’s important that your slide deck, and how you deliver it, is accessible.…
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Disability and the inclusion agenda in PR
It feels remiss to not mark #NationalInclusionWeek with a blog on the forgotten sibling in public relations’ diversity agendas. Usually falling after the final ‘and’ in a sentence, disability has always had to shout, stamp and push to be included in diversity discussions. My first industry blog on this was 2016 and in the intervening…
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10 Ways to improve disability recruitment in PR
Here’s the thing about most EDI statements for recruitment, they’re doing the bare minimum. You’re an equal opportunities employer, great! It’s the law. You support applications from marginalised groups? Wonderful. That’s still a pretty low bar. We can and should be aiming higher and being bolder about what we’re saying and how we’re saying it.…
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How to use Clubhouse without being ableist
Like many others the PR industry has been jumping on Clubhouse to host chats but as an audio only app there are significant accessibility challenges. Here’s how PR professionals can keep using Clubhouse without excluding deaf audiences. Exclusive for all the wrong reasons Discussions over the lack of accessibility features on Clubhouse have been bubbling…
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The Inclusion Delusion
How far has the PR industry really come in adopting and inclusive approach and is the word ‘inclusion’ misleading us?
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What happened when I trialled Google’s Live Transcribe
Yesterday I was signposted to news about Google’s latest developments for people who are D/deaf or have hearing loss. The one which is most interesting is Live Transcribe – an app which uses your phone’s microphone to transcribe speech in real time. It’s meant to facilitate clearer two way communication. Curious to know how well…