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Alright me old muckers I have TWO calls to action for you today: The FIRST one is that I would love to see loads of you at tomorrow night’s masterclass, Stop Unknowingly Excluding Disabled Clients! Secure your spot by visiting this link: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/digital-acce...

3)In public buildings use some damned common sense. If you assume I need a button or some other device to open main entrance doors assume I need them for other publicly accessible doors going in and out.

1) Not all disabilities are visible 2) Do not assume because I am disabled that I am helpless and DON'T touch my wheelchair without permission to do so

1. Disabled individuals are fully human. 2. The are owed equal rights and opportunities. 3. Their participation is as valuable as anyone else.

1. Disability isn’t a dirty word 2. Mental illness isn’t a dirty word 3. You can’t tell if someone’s disabled just by looking at them.

1. It'll happen to everyone 2. Making things accessible to disabled people helps everyone 3. AI in its current form is never the answer to any disability question

There’s a lot of insightful replies in this thread started by our lead chaos goblin (official job title) and founder, @zaranosaur.bsky.social. What do you think? Whether in academia or elsewhere, what are the top 3 things you wish people knew about disability, access and ableism?

What are the top 3 things you wished everyone knew about disability/chronic illness/ND'ness, access, and ableism at the start of the new academic year? Pop a comment below or ping me an email at hello at academicaudiotranscription dot com with your thoughts!

I'm thinking of this piece I wrote way back in June 2014, about the problematic assumption that when you're a starting PhD student or PGR who is disabled, you'll know what access support you'll need, even though you've never done a research degree before phdisabled.wordpress.com/2014/06/11/t...

So this week's reflections on @aat-transcribes.bsky.social upcoming newsletter have me thinking about what I wish my colleagues, students, supervisors, and the wider research community knew at the start of a new academic year about disability, accessibility and ableism.

Have you taken our digital accessibility quiz yet? If not, check it out and see where you rank on your digital accessibility journey! Don't forget that we have our next Masterclass coming up on the 23rd September at 7:30PM. funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/quizsignup-p...

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Due to a frankly bizarre confluence of back-end tech errors, internet outages and angry squirrels, we've postponed tonight's scheduled masterclass on digital accessibility for course creators. It's now NEXT TUESDAY 23 September at 7.30PM BST. Want to save your seat? Sign up here!

Accessibility isn't just the 'right thing to do' - it's smart business. 1 in 4 people in the UK are disabled, with a spending power of £274B annually. Think your digital content is accessible? Take our free quiz to see where you stand: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/quizsignup-p...

Come hang out with me at a masterclass on digital accessibility for #CourseCreators and #DigitalBusinessOwners next Tuesday 16 September at 7.30PM BST on Zoom What’s it called? Stop Unknowingly Excluding Disabled Clients! The Masterclass 😎

Accessibility = reach + impact. Join my FREE Digital Accessibility Masterclass to learn how to make your digital spaces more inclusive. Sign up here: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/digital-acce...

Do you know how much money disabled clients invest in the UK economy every year? What if you could make your course content and business products/services more accessible? funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/digital-acce...

Are you a course content creator or business owner looking to expand your client base? Have you thought about whether your course or business is digitally accessible? Take our short quiz to find out how accessible your products and services are!

This was really interesting (on fandom, pop culture, research methods and neurodivergence)!

Thought-provoking interview with @fangirlresearch.bsky.social in the @aat-transcribes.bsky.social newsletter that's just landed in my inbox! Will be of interest to those working on fandom, pop culture and/or neurodivergence.

It’s a whole new academic year, and we’re so excited to support cutting edge work across the U.K., US, Canada and Europe. We have a researcher community newsletter where we feature interviews with our fantastic clients. Next up: @fangirlresearch.bsky.social. Sign up here (and get a FREE guide!)

Over at @aat-transcribes.bsky.social we’ve been on summer break but we’re getting booked and busy for the autumn, and we can’t wait! Got projects you’d love our support with, or keen to support our social mission? Contact us via our web form to tell us about your needs and your project ASAP!

Think your content is accessible just because you added captions? Many ethical entrepreneurs discover too late that small oversights are shutting out disabled clients. In our next Masterclass, you’ll learn how to spot these pitfalls and apply practical fixes that make your business truly inclusive.

New season, new projects? Our diary is open for autumn, and we’d love to help with your transcription needs. We work with podcasters, businesses, researchers, and creatives to turn audio into accurate, accessible text. Visit our website today and let’s schedule your project!

Are you an online business owner offering course and memberships who wants to be inclusive? Learn how digital accessibility can stop you unintentionally excluding ideal clients PLUS how to craft a premium customer experience while reducing legal risk at my FREE training tomorrow. Sign up below!

Digital accessibility isn’t optional — it’s a smart business move. Join our free webinar on 19 Aug, 7:30PM BST to learn why it matters, 3 reasons to start today, and 2 easy ways to improve now. Register before spots fill: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/digital-acce...

Good morning hello how are you GUESS WHAT? We are launching a BRAND NEW PROJECT within @aat-transcribes.bsky.social, on a mission to help course creators and membership owners to be more accessible. We're kicking off with a webinar on Tues 19 August @ 7.30PM BST. Join us? Sign up here:

Are you a disabled, chronically ill and/or neurodivergent professional with a passion for sales and marketing, or customer service and operational administration? We are hiring and would love to hear from you! Deadline: 5pm Friday 1 August (tomorrow!) Check out the roles here:

If you have the interest, maybe some experience, definitely bags of enthusiasm, for either of the roles, then please do apply at recruitment at academicaudiotranscription dot com. Deadline is 5pm BST next Friday. I'm really excited to hear from you!

So that's what I'm after, and some of the reasoning behind it. Those with career gaps or returning to work hugely welcome. Training will be provided, but familiarity with core elements of the role would be an advantage.

4. We need additional capacity to cover our core operational functions too, as well as all this additional capacity so that when people do need to take weeks off sick, I'm not then covering everyone's roles and burning myself out too. Accessibility has to apply to everyone, not just a few of us.

3. If at any time, one or both of our kind of digital reception in the form of our main inbox handling goes down, or our sales and marketing goes down (as it has the past 6-8 weeks due to flare-ups in my team), then we don't generate leads, make sales, or manage the ones we make.

2. There are already models for how to create roles where multiple people cover the same set of functions, seamlessly, as if they're the same person: job shares. In the past I've thought of it as cross-cover, or doubling-up, or having primary/secondary people for tasks. But this time? Job sharing.

So I'm trying to formalise or navigate at least four things at once: 1. We need dedicated sales staff to handle inbound leads and do outreach. We just do. Sales isn't bad; sales is how we create work for our team. Simple as, really.

We've gone through a few iterations, and so far, nothing has really stuck, for a whole host of different reasons. We have, slightly embarrassingly, only really just got our heads screwed on to recognise that SALES REALLY MATTERS. No sales = no income, no work, no viability, no business.

How do you build internal structures and roles within those structures that confer clear ownership over different functions and tasks within the business, while also being built to handle the reality of fluctuating chronic illness and the chance of staff absence or incapacity at any time?

Why am I hiring this way, this time? As you know, I run a disabled-majority social enterprise with intimate, decades-long experience of what I think of as energy-impairment--or what in other times might be thought of as capacity-impairment. It prompts a pretty tough organisational challenge...

I am looking for TWO new Sales & Marketing Assistants, and TWO new Customer Service & Operations Administrators. In other words, I'm looking for FOUR new team members in total. All roles are part-time, flexible, and remote. One of each should be UK-based; otherwise? I'm open.

Right, I posted this earlier in a bit of a rush after realising that my youngest had spiked a fever and *would not stop breastfeeding* just before having to go get my eldest from forest school, but now I'm back, I've eaten, nap and TV chilling is happening. So: let's talk about these roles!

Can you help me spread the word? I’m hiring: FOUR part-time freelance roles Across TWO jobshares, 1 x sales & marketing, 1 x admin & operations All to support my disabled-majority intersectional UK-based social enterprise Deadline: 5pm Friday 1 August I’m excited to hear from you!

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So, it looks like I need to recruit some people who absolutely LOVE both our disabled-led, intersectional mission AND doing sales and account management into @aat-transcribes.bsky.social -- handling inbound leads, identifying audience targets and doing cold outreach, and building relationships

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