Create accessible digital platforms
What we will do:
- Review and update internal and public records to be accessible and ensure language and imagery is inclusive. This includes:
- published strategies
- plans
- guidelines
- the department’s website, intranet and SharePoint sites.
Lead division: Corporate and Delivery Services
Develop an accessible communication policy
What we have done and continue to do:
- Launch the department’s Accessible communications policy.
- Support the launch with free plain language training sessions for all departmental staff. This includes specialised plain language training for legal teams.
- Provide resources for:
- making accessible content
- writing in plain language
- planning accessible events and meetings. This includes how to engage captioners and Auslan interpreters.
- Create, use and promote accessible Word and PowerPoint templates in the department’s visual style.
- Establish a whole-of-Victorian Government Accessible Communications Working Group. The group will share initiatives for accessible communications in all our work.
Lead division: Corporate and Delivery Services
Deliver relevant training
What we have done and continue to do:
- Develop and promote training to support the new Accessible communications policy.
- Deliver plain language training for all staff. This will train staff in accessible communication and inclusion.
Lead division: Corporate and Delivery Services
Explore use of artificial intelligence (AI)
What we have done and continue to do:
- Develop policy responses about AI assistance.
- Corporate and Delivery Services will work with Disability, Fairness and Emergency Management to develop advice on accessibility of AI. The process will support people with disability to work effectively in and with the department.
Lead division: Corporate and Delivery Services