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- No, a plastic card won’t give me human rights
- NZ’s draft Digital Accessibility Standard: the good, the bad, and the fugly
- Wellington’s bus stops don’t work for disabled people
- A digital accessibility standard that (maybe?) forgot the health system
- CWAC Loserboard: version 2 (beta) is here!
- Autoplaying homepage videos: don’t do it
- Groundbreaking Accessibility Standards Bill proposed by NZ First MP Jenny Marcroft
- Kāinga Ora: you can’t have it both ways
- Accessible pedestrian crossings: New Zealand’s special beeping buttons
- Contactless surcharges are a disability tax
- Getting AI to speak Māori — well, sort of
- Alternate formats: the government doesn’t know the cost
- Tactile Ground Surface Indicators (TGSI) — Accessible design around Wellington
- EN 301 549: the accessibility standard that isn’t accessible
- Libraries and low vision: my experience
- ManageMyHealth Hack: A failure of standards
- All Quack and No Bite: The problem with NZ Govt’s accessibility measurement system
- Speech: Plain Language Awards 2025
- The Plain Language Paper Trail: How disability rights disappear
- Do ARIA attributes get translated?
- Accessible blockquotes in HTML
- Accessible Social Media: Alt Text
- 98% Oppose Plain Language Act Repeal
- Budget 2025: What’s in it for disabled people?
- Plain Language Act repeal may breach UN human rights obligations
- Do NZ Government videos need audio description?
- Automating automated accessibility audits
- Accessible art
- National Party attacks accessibility for disabled people
- What a logo looks like, sounds like, feels like
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- Introducing OpenAccess