Easyread.tech

17/07/2025

💬 🌏 “The limits of my language are the limits of my world.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

📅 On Wednesday, 9 July, Easyread.tech and Cornerstone Alliance proudly hosted the event ‘Access and Inclusion in Communications’ as part of the 2025 program at the Australian Migrant Resource Centre.

🙌 💼 Despite the cold and rainy weather, we were thrilled to welcome a fantastic turnout of passionate, like-minded individuals from the human services sector to discuss the importance of diverse multicultural and accessible marketing and communications strategies.

🧡 💜 A big thank you to everyone who joined us for an insightful afternoon and to AMRC for your wonderful hospitality!

🗣️ ❓ It was extremely heartening to see the high-level of genuine engagement and collaborative problem-solving on topics including:

🎨 Accessible Communications: Visual & Design Development
✍️ The Art of Simplification: Tips for Writing in Plain English
🧠 Trauma-Informed Communication
🤖 We’ve All Heard AI Is Good — But Is AI Good Enough?
🤝 🏥 Community Engagement and Co-Design: Creating Equitable Access to Health Information
📖 Intercultural Workshops: Facilitating Place-Based Solutions

🎤 👏 A special thank you to Tamara Shipley from Cancer Council SA and Abdulsalam Hamid Juma from the City Of Charles Sturt for joining us as guest speakers to highlight the necessity of inclusive communications!

📣 As our Creative Producer, Denny Krvavac powerfully put it: “How might our designs change if we viewed accessibility as a creative and accessible improvement rather than an afterthought?”

📸: Alexis Treulieb-Berk

13/07/2025

📅 🪃 It’s NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week (6-13 July)!

❤️ 💛 🖤 💙 💚 🤍 2025 marks 50 years of celebration and recognition of the history, culture, and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples — the oldest, continuous living cultures on Earth.

✊ This year’s theme is ‘The Next Generation: Strength, Vision, & Legacy’, celebrating both a past and future sustained by the strength of young leaders, a shared vision between communities, and the legacy of their ancestors.

🖌️ 📖 Easyread.tech is committed to honouring the Kaurna people who take care of the Adelaide region, the lands where our work is based, and other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Australia, by promoting better access to information and inclusion for the next generation of First Nations leaders.

🤝 Our accessible communications are designed to enable the self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, while ensuring we authentically represent those whom we aim to serve.

🗣️ ✅ Community-led feedback is important to us, as we know that First Nations voices are foundational to a bright future of justice and equality. Their voices should not only be heard, but uplifted to create lasting cultural change.

🙌 We look forward to seeing how far accessibility and inclusion will advance in the next 50 years!



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The navy blue text in the white space on the right below reads 'We want to say that the land we are on today belongs to the Kaurna people. We respect their special connection to this land.

The Kaurna people take care of the Adelaide region, and their traditions are still really important to them today.

We also show respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples from other parts of South Australia or Australia who are here with us.'

Next to the Acknowledgement on the left, is an illustration of a diverse group of five First Nations people, of different ages, genders, abilities, and skin tones, in a sunny park with tall Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal flags planted on the hill behind them. The people are wearing small versions of the flags as badges.

The easy read dot tech logo is in the bottom left corner of the white tile.]

23/06/2025

📅 🌏 Join Easyread.tech and Cornerstone Alliance for on 9 July, convened by the Australian Migrant Resource Centre (AMRC), to increase your understanding about diverse multicultural and accessible communications!

✅ 📈 Discover how you can improve your marketing and communications strategies to ensure they are accessible to and inclusive of people of all cultural backgrounds, abilities, and levels of English proficiency.

You will have the opportunity to:

📖 Learn about tools and best practices for diverse/accessible communications.
✍️ Participate in an accessible communications workshop.
🎤 Hear success stories from Community Members and Sector Leaders.
❓ Take part in an insightful Q&A session.
🗣️ Network with like-minded individuals, while enjoying light refreshments.

We welcome the following attendees:

💬 Anyone interested in diverse/accessible communications.
🧑‍🎓 Students exploring careers in media, marketing, communication, community outreach etc.
💼 People working in social services (multicultural, aged care, disability sectors) across public, private, local government, and not-for-profit.
🤝 People from CALD backgrounds seeking accessible tools, better representation, and community networks.
📣 Advocates, educators, and community members committed to creating more inclusive spaces.

🎟️ Register for the free event here
👉 https://events.humanitix.com/access-and-inclusion-in-communications

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Below, there is a blue text box with a calendar, clock, and location icons inside. The blue text reads 'Increase your understanding about diverse multicultural communications and accessible communications. Wednesday 9th July 2025. 2 pm to 4:30pm. A M R C Multicultural Centre, 23 Coglin Street, Adelaide, S A, 5000.' Below are the easy read dot tech and Cornerstone Alliance logos.]

20/06/2025

Your organisation's Disability Access and Inclusion Plan is there to inform your community on how it will commit to creating an accessible, inclusive and equitable environment for people living with disability. ♿🏞️

So why not ensure that the resource is accessible for people with disability? 🤷‍♀️

Now that it's time for many authorities to develop their new DAIP for the next four years, it's the perfect opportunity to release an Easy Read version — a format designed to support people with intellectual disability or cognitive decline to understand important information. 📄📖

Accessibility and inclusion shouldn't just stop at the written plan — it should be embodied by the written plan. 💪

Get in touch with the dedicated team at easyread.tech to find out how your organisation can take the first step towards real and meaningful inclusion! 🤝



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Slide #2: A zoomed in view of the same girl holding the clipboard. The heading of the clipboard reads 'Things to Do: 2025-2029 DAIP.' Below the heading are three checklist items. The first one reads 'Write draft DAIP'. The second one reads 'Release for community consultation'. The third one reads "Contact easy read dot tech for an Easy Read version of the DAIP'. The word 'easy read dot tech' is circled in light blue. The first two check-list items are ticked in green. The last checklist item is not ticked. In the bottom right corner, there is the easy read dot tech logo.]

16/06/2025

Now that many state authorities are set to review their Disability Access & Inclusion Plans this year, it’s the perfect time for a refresher on what the State Disability Inclusion Plan is — and how it guides local councils and authorities in creating more accessible, inclusive communities for all. ♿💡🤝

Check it out here: 👉

Written by Samoda Silva Illustrations by Justin Olivares & Denny Krvavac In April 2025, public consultation was opened for the draft of the State Disability Inclusion Plan (DIP) for 2025-2029. What is the State Disability Inclusion Plan? Launched initially in 2019, this is South Australia’s ro...

05/06/2025

Would you rather read a dense, jargon-heavy and uninspiring corporate document, or one that’s simple, visually interesting and engaging?🤔

I think we all know the answer! ⭐

Whether it’s a strategy paper, discussion paper or an annual report, internal and external documents don’t have to be boring. 🙅🏼‍♀️

Clear, compelling design, coupled with Easy Read text can turn even the most complex information into something people actually want to read — and remember. 📚💡

Let’s stop settling for the status quo and start communicating with impact. Your ideas deserve better. 👏

Get in touch with us today to discover how we can help your organisation! 🙌



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03/06/2025

🙌 🏡 Today’s client shoutout goes to our wonderful friends at HomePlace Disability Support Service!

♿ 🧠 This is the second time we have supported the registered NDIS provider to develop an accessible and inclusive resource for participants with intellectual disability.

📝 🗣️ HomePlace worked closely with the Our Voice SA Peer Network Group to carefully review and test the key messages from HomePlace’s 2023 to 2024 Easy Read Annual Report.

🤝 We are incredibly grateful for the constructive feedback from people with lived experience about how to best design our products to be easily understood by the audience they are intended for.

✅ Co-design is a core principle of our work and we are committed to tweaking our services to reflect the needs of those whom we serve to the highest standard.

🌐 Find out what HomePlace has been up to and see the results of our collaboration here
👉 https://tinyurl.com/2e62zkre

15/05/2025

Thank you to our friends at HomePlace Disability Support Service for supporting our mission for better access to information and inclusion for all! 🤩 ♿️

09/04/2025

We all know that navigating the health sector can be incredibly complicated at times. But what if there was a way to make it easier? 🤔

In Easyread.tech's latest article, we dive into how Plain English practices can improve outcomes for both patients and providers, and explore simple ways for health practitioners and organisations to embed them into their everyday practices. 👩🏾‍⚕️🏥

Check it out here! 👇

Written by Samoda Silva Illustrations by Justin Olivares Health information can be incredibly complex, and health settings can be incredibly daunting. From the endless paperwork to digest and sign off, the medical terms that might as well be in a foreign language, and the stress and emotion that com...

27/03/2025

🙌 Today, we are proud to shout out the National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA)!

🇦🇺 📣 NEDA is a national Disabled People’s Organisation that advocates federally for the rights of people with disability and their families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

✊ They are committed to ensuring their two-fold experiences with discrimination are heard by the Government and represented in the policies that affect them.

♿ 📝 Easyread.tech supported NEDA with the development of an Easy Read version of their Annual Report, which summarises the important work they have done from 2023 to 2024.

The key matters that NEDA advised on that we carefully considered for translation include:

✈️ 🌏 Migration
💜 💚 The NDIS CALD Strategy
🔎 👊 ❌ The Disability Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse and Neglect
🧠 ♾️ The National Autism Strategy

🤝 ✅ We welcomed the challenge to explain these complex policy developments, along with how NEDA contributed to these discussions, in a way that was simple for people with disability and who speak languages other than English to understand.

🌐 Check out how we did it and read up on NEDA’s latest valuable work here 👉https://neda.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/NEDA2402-AnnualReport-2023-24-EASYREAD-DIGITAL.pdf

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On the left, is a photo of the cover of the N E D A Easy Read Annual Report with an illustration of a group of 4 people with disability and from different cultural backgrounds.

The easy read dot tech logo is in the bottom left corner. The bottom right corner has an illustration of a group of 5 people of different ages, abilities, genders and cultural backgrounds looking up at the document while holding books. One woman is patting a guide dog.]

21/03/2025

♾️ 🧠 🌻 It’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week (17-23 March)! This is a time to value and nurture the strengths of neurodivergent people, including those who are Autistic, dyslexic, have ADHD, or Tourette’s, to name just a few.

🤝 At Easyread.tech, we are here to support neurodivergent communities to achieve their full potential and reduce the struggles of living in a society that wasn’t built for them.

🤔 📖 Why is Easy Read important to neurodivergent people?

It reduces cognitive overload and distractions by conveying essential information in a direct manner. ✅

It enhances reading comprehension by eliminating ambiguous language and ideas so it’s easier to process. ✅

It’s more visually stimulating and engaging to read, promoting focus. ✅

It empowers neurodivergent people to have more choice and control over their lives in a way that best suits their needs. ✅

📝 If your organisation is truly committed to celebrating neurodivergence all year-round, then consider investing in Easy Read resources to better support your workers and the community.

😊 We are here to help!



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On the right, is a group of 3 neurodivergent people smiling and holding medium-sized white flags with the rainbow infinity symbol.

There is a boy with light skin and dark hair using a wheelchair, an older man with light skin, grey hair and using a walking cane, and a woman with dark skin and short hair wearing a blue bandanna. The boy and woman are also wearing small white rainbow infinity badges.

The easy read dot tech logo is in the bottom left corner.

22/01/2025

💜 ♾️ 🌈 As Easyread.tech marks a new year, we are thrilled to have collaborated with The LOTE Agency to produce an Easy Read summary of the landmark National Autism Strategy and its First Action Plan!

♾️ ✍️ This project is especially meaningful to us as it was informed by the lived experience of one of our translators/content writers, who was granted the opportunity to “help shape the change” for their fellow Autistic Australians.

🤝 ✅ Co-designed by the National Autism Strategy Oversight Council, mostly made up of members of the Autistic community, and the Department of Social Services- Australian Families, the Strategy aims to support all Autistic people across their lives, no matter their needs or diagnosis status.

The Strategy has 4 key outcome areas:

🫂 Social inclusion- Making sure Autistic people feel that they belong.

🏫 💼 Economic inclusion- Helping Autistic people to build skills and get jobs.

📝 Diagnosis, services and supports- Making it easier to get a diagnosis and help from services.

🏥 🧠 Health and mental health- Making better services for Autistic people to be healthy and happy.

🙌 ♿ We are extremely proud to have contributed to better access and inclusion for the Autistic community on a national scale.

🌐 You can check out our Easy Read version of the National Autism Strategy here
​​👉https://www.dss.gov.au/system/files/documents/2025-01/9820_dss_nas_easy-read_final_digital-pdf-13.01.pdf



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A white social media tile with blue round shapes and squiggles. The easy read dot tech logo is in the bottom left corner.

On the left, is a photo of the white cover page of the Easy Read National Autism Strategy document with bold black text that reads 'National Autism Strategy and First Action Plan.' There is a rectangular photo of a woman with light skin and dark hair patting a dog. The blue Easy Read symbol of an open book is beneath. The cover has a purple header with a white Australian Government coat of arms and the National Autism Strategy logo with a broken red, orange, blue and green coloured squiggle. The slogan reads 'Help shape the change.'

On the right, big blue text reads 'Project Highlight'. Underneath, in the bottom right corner, is an illustration of a group of 5 people of different ages, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds looking up at the document. One boy with dark skin and hair is holding an Easy Read paper, while a woman with light skin and dark hair is petting a guide dog, with a small red heart above the dog, who is nuzzling her. ]