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OpenAccess is a disabled-led, Aotearoa-based consultancy making tech accessible for disabled people.
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Callum McMenamin's speech at the 2025 Plain Language Awards, critiquing the repeal of the Plain Language Act.

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#accessibility #plainlanguage #nzpol #a11y
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,…
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November 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Callum McMenamin's speech at the Plain Language Awards 2025, critiquing the repeal of the Plain Language Act:
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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,…
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November 1, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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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 #a11y
NZ Govt Agency Accessibility Loserboard — OpenAccess
A ranking of NZ Government agencies by the average number of accessibility issues per page across the websites they manage.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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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.

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#nzpol #a11y #accessibility
NZ Govt Plain Language Loserboard — 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.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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We’ve developed an accessibility leaderboard for NZ Govt website accessibility!

The majority of websites fail mandatory accessibility standards.

www.openaccess.nz/blog/cwac/

#accessibility #a11y #nzpol
NZ Govt Accessibility Loserboard — 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.
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August 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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.
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#accessibility #humanrights
The Plain Language Paper Trail: How disability rights disappear — 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...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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
Do ARIA attributes get translated? — OpenAccess
Testing whether common ARIA attributes like `aria-label` are successfully translated by various webpage translation tools.
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July 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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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
Accessible Social Media: Alt Text — 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.
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June 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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🧑‍🦯 Do you know how to make social media images accessible for blind people? Find out how in the latest OpenAccess blog post.

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#accessibility
Accessible Social Media: Alt Text — 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.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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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:

• 97.58% oppose the repeal.

• 0.68% support the repeal.
The message is clear: plain language matters.
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#PlainLanguage #Accessibility #NZPol
97.6% Oppose Plain Language Act Repeal — OpenAccess
Analysis of all written submissions to Parliament shows overwhelming public opposition to repealing the Plain Language Act — 97.6% say keep it.
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May 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Budget 2025: What’s 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.

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#Budget2025 #DisabilityRights #Accessibility
Budget 2025: What's in it for disabled people? — OpenAccess
Budget 2025 brings a range of changes for disabled people. Here’s what’s new — and what’s missing.
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May 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Accessible art is incredible for disabled people. In our latest blog post, we discuss multisensory art.

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#art #disability #accessibility #a11y
Accessible art — OpenAccess
Art should engage all our senses, not just sight. In this post, I share some accessible art from Whakatū (Nelson) — the Braille waiata on the Aratuna Bridge.
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April 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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🚨 New blog post: National Party attacks accessibility for disabled people

The Government is repealing the Plain Language Act — legislation that helps disabled people in Aotearoa New Zealand by requiring public information to be clear and easy to understand.

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National Party attacks accessibility for disabled people — OpenAccess
The National Party is repealing the Plain Language Act. This Act was intended to ensure government documents are easy to understand.
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April 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM