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OpenAccess is a disabled-led, Aotearoa-based consultancy making tech accessible for disabled people.
Callum McMenamin's speech at the 2025 Plain Language Awards, critiquing the repeal of the Plain Language Act.
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#nzpol
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Callum McMenamin's speech at the Plain Language Awards, 2025
Callum McMenamin providing a speech in the Grand Hall of New Zealand Parliament at the Plain Language Awards 2025. Callum discusses the social model of disability,β¦
https://vimeo.com/1132697191
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Callum McMenamin's speech at the Plain Language Awards 2025, critiquing the repeal of the Plain Language Act:
vimeo.com/1132697191
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Callum McMenamin's speech at the Plain Language Awards, 2025
Callum McMenamin providing a speech in the Grand Hall of New Zealand Parliament at the Plain Language Awards 2025. Callum discusses the social model of disability,β¦
https://vimeo.com/1132697191
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We've created a league table of web accessibility performance across New Zealand Government agencies! It's super cool.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/cwac/ag...
#accessibility
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NZ Govt Agency Accessibility Loserboard β OpenAccess
A ranking of NZ Government agencies by the average number of accessibility issues per page across the websites they manage.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/cwac/agencies/
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Analysis by OpenAccess suggests that 96% of NZ Govt websites fail plain language criteria. On average, a Year 11 education is required to fully understand government website text.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/cwac/la...
#nzpol
#a11y
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NZ Govt Plain Language Loserboard β OpenAccess
A ranking of the hardest-to-read websites in the New Zealand Government, based on automated readability tests from the Centralised Web Accessibility Checker monitoring programme.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/cwac/language/
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Weβve developed an accessibility leaderboard for NZ Govt website accessibility! The majority of websites fail mandatory accessibility standards.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/cwac/
#accessibility
#a11y
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NZ Govt Accessibility Loserboard β OpenAccess
A ranking of the worst-performing websites in the New Zealand Government, according to automated tests from the Centralised Web Accessibility Checker monitoring programme.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/cwac/
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In my latest blog post, I show how the Public Service Commission responded to a complaint about ignoring disabled people's human rights in the Plain Language Act Repeal Bill process.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/the-pla...
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The Plain Language Paper Trail: How disability rights disappear β OpenAccess
I complained to the Public Service Commission about their failure to consider disabled people's rights while handling the Plain Language Act Repeal Bill. In this article, I lay out all the documents f...
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/the-plain-language-paper-trail/
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Have you considered how well your website translates into other languages, for disabled people? In a multicultural Aotearoa, webpage translation is essential to include all humans. Learn more in the latest OpenAccess blog post.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/do-aria...
#accessibility
#a11y
#i18n
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Do ARIA attributes get translated? β OpenAccess
Testing whether common ARIA attributes like `aria-label` are successfully translated by various webpage translation tools.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/do-aria-attributes-get-translated/
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7 months ago
The Make it Easy team joined People First NZ for a great webinar with Callum from
@openaccess.nz
on alt text and social media accessibility. Thanks Callum for sharing your knowledge with us! Read more in his blog and find out about working with OpenAccess at
bit.ly/oa-alttext
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Accessible Social Media: Alt Text β OpenAccess
Alt text for social media images makes them accessible to blind people. This guide explains how to add alt text to your social media images, and why it's important.
https://bit.ly/oa-alttext
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π§βπ¦― Do you know how to make social media images accessible for blind people? Find out how in the latest OpenAccess blog post.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/accessi...
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Accessible Social Media: Alt Text β OpenAccess
Alt text for social media images makes them accessible to blind people. This guide explains how to add alt text to your social media images, and why it's important.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/accessible-social-media-alt-text/
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97.6% oppose the repeal of the Plain Language Act. OpenAccess used human-verified AI to analyse all 1,322 submissions:β¨ β’ 97.58% oppose the repeal. β¨β’ 0.68% support the repeal. The message is clear: plain language matters.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/97_per_...
#PlainLanguage
#Accessibility
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97.6% Oppose Plain Language Act Repeal β OpenAccess
Analysis of all written submissions to Parliament shows overwhelming public opposition to repealing the Plain Language Act β 97.6% say keep it.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/97_per_cent_oppose_plain_language_act_repeal/
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Budget 2025: Whatβs in it for disabled people? It includes funding for learning support in schools, and no progress on disability support. But there's a new govt performance measure for web accessibility.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/budget-...
#Budget2025
#DisabilityRights
#Accessibility
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Budget 2025: What's in it for disabled people? β OpenAccess
Budget 2025 brings a range of changes for disabled people. Hereβs whatβs new β and whatβs missing.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/budget-2025-whats-in-it-for-disabled-people/
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Accessible art is incredible for disabled people. In our latest blog post, we discuss multisensory art.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/accessi...
#art
#disability
#accessibility
#a11y
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Accessible art β OpenAccess
Art should engage all our senses, not just sight. In this post, I share some accessible art from WhakatΕ« (Nelson) β the Braille waiata on the Aratuna Bridge.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/accessible-art/
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π¨ New blog post: National Party attacks accessibility for disabled people The Government is repealing the Plain Language Act β legislation that helps disabled people in Aotearoa New Zealand by requiring public information to be clear and easy to understand.
www.openaccess.nz/blog/nationa...
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National Party attacks accessibility for disabled people β OpenAccess
The National Party is repealing the Plain Language Act. This Act was intended to ensure government documents are easy to understand.
https://www.openaccess.nz/blog/national-party-attacks-accessibility-for-disabled-people/
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