In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16, Sam speaks with Dr Scott Hollier, co-founder and CEO of the Centre for Accessibility Australia.

The Centre for Accessibility Australia is a Perth based organisation working to promote digital access, and assist people with disabilities to find solutions that enable them to stay connected with the digital world.

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Sam recently caught up with Blind Citizens Australia CEO Deb Deshayes, to have a look back with her over her first six months in the role as CEO, including some highlights, challenges and general feelings about the last six months at BCA.

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Join Sam as he speaks with Sarah, Serena and Michael, three participants from Career Visions, as well as Career Visions coordinator Harmonie Downes.

Career Visions is a Brisbane based program run by Vision Australia in partnership with the Queensland government to support jobseekers who are blind or have low vision to develop job readiness skills, and gain confidence to enter the workforce.

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Australian dating app startup Spoony (https://spoony.app) has unveiled its founding team and has set a Q4 2024 launch date. Kenneth Liang (Chief Technology Officer) and Blake Crichton (Lead Experience Designer) join Nicholas Carlton (Chief Executive Officer) to build Spoony, a dating & friendship app for neurodivergent, chronically ill, and disabled people.

Inspired by CEO & Co-Founder Nicholas Carlton’s experiences as a chronically ill person, Spoony has ambitious plans to become the leading dating & friendship app for the billions of people globally who are neurodivergent, chronically ill, or disabled.

Nicholas Carlton’ speaks to presenter Peter Greco to learn more.

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Neville Houghton CPA, chats with Peter Greco and reflects in part on the recent federal government budget announcements. 

Neville Houghton has spent 60 years as a CPA and member of the Australian Society of Certified Public Accountants and today offers financial advice to Vision Australia Radio listeners.

Please note that advice within this podcast is of a general nature only and individual circumstances will mean different results for individual people. Neville provides points of contact within this podcast but we highly encourage you make an informed decision before contacting a financial planner and making an informed decision before committing to any products or services from any individual, business or organization at any time.

Neville can be reached on 0452 596 855 during business hours.

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New research from La Trobe University highlights that Australia's multilingual resources during the COVID-19 pandemic were not always effective, with communication gaps sometimes leading to mistrust in public services.

Even though Australia has good quality translation and interpreting services, people who speak languages other than English still struggle to access timely and high quality information that is essential to their health and wellbeing.

The global study, which was published in the Australian Journal of Social Issues, reviewed research from Australia and around the world to find the best examples of multilingual communication models that were both effective and inclusive.

In this podcast, lead researcher Raelene Wilding joins presenter Peter Greco to discuss in more detail.

The study Linguistic diversity and emergency health alerts: A systematic critical review, can be found here: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajs4.328__;!!BW9V2p7J0Kl2QvQ!FKNCwAoJLDj1rEVo9FU9G7jD1jgjAbkLK5JIe-IQ6pRcOTxUad6hZqr3fv269FF8kV9rB92Dxs0lXhCybFuWrp5oA3BRCgV2S9s$ 

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Louise Milligan, investigative journalist and author, talked about being at "In Conversation" with the Vision Australia Library for the Melbourne Writers Festival.  Louise's book, "Pheasants Nest" is available through the Library.

Go to http://www.visionaustralia.org/library to learn more about our library service, and keep listening to Vision Australia Radio to keep tabs on how you can hear the event encore in the coming week. 

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Ranmali McCormack, Vision Australia People and Culture Services Manager, drops in to the Vision Australia Radio studios to speak with presenter Peter Greco. The two discuss the upcoming National Reconciliation Week which starts 27 May, and provide an overview of events which are scheduled across our organisation.

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May 16 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).

Dr Scott Hollier, Co-Founder and CEO for the Centre for Accessibility, chats with Peter Greco about GAAD, the launch of some videos and in conjunction with Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN), highlights some challenges about cancelling phone plans.

Find out more: Australian Communications Consumer Action Network

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Donate your "spare" phones and potentially make them into a safe device. 

Peter Greco hears of Kyra Quinlivan’s lived experience of domestic violence and she gives us an opportunity to help in a program which may help others in similar situations.

Call: 1800 732 737

or go to: DV Safe Phone

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