A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
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Last time I shared ways in which I am making my content more accessible to people who are blind. This week I want to focus on how I am trying to make my content more inclusive of the people from the deaf community and those living with hearing loss. I am having to think more …
A few months ago I took a long, hard look at the work I’m doing and began to think about ways I could make my content more accessible for all consumers. I totally get it. I understand why most content creators either don’t know or don’t care about the potential needs of the disability community. …
In last week’s blog, I shared a YouTube playlist with a whole lot of cute guide dog and dog videos, showing my guide dogs both at work and at play. I hope you enjoyed digging into those videos and that they made you smile. While on the subject of guide dogs, I’ve started working on …
A few years ago much of my work revolved around accessible travel and tourism. At the very least, that was the major focus of my podcast, A Different Way of Seeing. Rather, A Different Way of Travelling, as the show was then called. Yet somehow, apart from my trips overseas, my focus seemed to have …
Two weeks ago I mentioned the impact that stories have on so many aspects of my life. Everything I shared in that post was brought home to me in a chance conversation I had a few days ago. Here’s what happened. I recently had to go for some routine medical tests. When I arrived at …
Here is another podcast interview I recently did, this time on the Include with Dr Liz podcast. There were several things I really enjoyed about this conversation. Dr Liz and I discussed my unwillingness to subscribe to labels. I feel that society so often defines us by our labels when we are, in reality, far …
Being up on stage and sharing my thoughts about inclusion and diversity in the workplace has to be one of my favourite things to do. Which is why I was so excited to find myself standing in front of an audience again as a keynote speaker at a Road Accident Fund disability awareness day recently. …
In my last post, I mentioned that the Inclusive Heritage ‘Kanala’ (please) project had one more exciting outcome for Karren Visser and myself. At the start of the project we had discussed asking South African journalist Florence de Vries if she would consider writing an article for the traditional media on what we had been …
Having visited the District Six Museum and looked of the way the museum collaborates with visitors to give them the best experience, we decided to focus our energy on how to make the storytelling aspect of the museum more inclusive for people who were unable to engage with the physical exhibitions and photographs. To do …
Having been notified that we had been successful in our funding application for the Inclusive Heritage ‘Kanala’ (please) project, our first step was to visit the District Six Museum to gain a sense of their existing exhibits and what the visitor experience might be like for a blind or partially blind person. Our plan was …