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Accesstech Innovation Empowers Journalists On Digital Content Access

by Andrew Ojiezel
1 year ago
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Accesstech Innovation and Research Centre has empowered journalists on digital content access, while partnering the media to cater for the people with disabilities.

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This is even as the body explained that partnership with media will raise awareness on inclusion of people living with disabilities in societal planning.

Speaking during workshop which was also to commemorate the Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the founder and the CEO of the institution,  Opeolu Akinola, noted that, the involvement of media will go a long way to championing accessibility in journalism and capture more people living disabilities roaming the streets, into the digital content inclusion for the blind, dyslexic, other print-disabled and deaf readers.

According to him, collaborating with journalists will educate everyone that, apart from access to information being a matter of human rights, it is essential to journalists that the information they are passing across reaches as many people as possible including persons with disabilities.

 

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“By incorporating accessibility best practices, journalists can engage a wider audience to interact with their content. This fosters a more inclusive media landscape and ensures that everyone has the opportunity to stay informed. Very importantly, we are empowering journalist to set the agenda for disability inclusion through their stories,” he stressed.

 

On her part, Accesstech Innovation Chief Operations officer, Emmanuella Akinola, while addressing participants on ‘Digital Content Accessibility’ training said: “Disability issue is not charity but developmental issues; and must be handled with the utmost commitment by us all to ensure an all-inclusive world for all. The capacity-building workshop was targeted at creating accessible digital media content for people with disabilities.”

 

 


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