I'm assuming Support Workers are welcome to accompany their clients. What other measures have been taken to make it more Accessible?

I’m here @Cuddlebear 

iv found great support from humdrum in Perth which gives you the option of hiring your own carers and shows you how much they are getting paid 

took 6 years 

@DogMan79 Yes offcourse your support worker can attend too. It’s online via Zoom. 

we will have live remote captioning and using easy to understand language. 

This is all put by people with disabilities just ordinarily everyday people. We have no funding it’s all just people volunteering. 

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@Cuddlebear wrote:

@DogMan79 Yes offcourse your support worker can attend too. It’s online via Zoom. 

we will have live remote captioning and using easy to understand language. 

This is all put by people with disabilities just ordinarily everyday people. We have no funding it’s all just people volunteering. 

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Captions are great

I think smartphones offer things now too. But for my deaf mum, there wasn't much available

We have deaf and HoH members here at SANE too 🙂

I shared the link in a few groups which I am a member of ☺️

@Cuddlebear you might be interested in this article on the imperative to challenge algorithms.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/30/i-took-an-algorithm-to-court-in-sweden-the-algorithm-won?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I have wrote a letter to my local MP regarding my concerns about the new ndis reforms & have sent it out! Big win for me today! Lucky I was able to have my social worker to assist me with writing it.

@Cuddlebear @Dimity @AlwaysMyself @Jynx 

Kudos @Blackcloud 😎

Well done @Blackcloud 😊. 

And thank you for sharing @Cuddlebear 😊. I didnt see the post until after the event (lol such is my life lately in all areas) but I really hope it went well, and so glad a community was hosting it to discuss and raise awareness and voice. 

@Cuddlebear @Blackcloud @AlwaysMyself @Jynx @Dimity 

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/NDISFutureGenBill?fbclid=IwY2xjawSB4UNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE0VHZqanh3OWo3STkzWUpuc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkTSzOtzP2vELeRzK8z6FuZO9AWvVobQoAfsQ8OBnvVoJLFjNcNDhon9jzcS_aem_TQHIoTPrd8wYj9r7BtAXZw

There is a senate enquiry

I think it's probably tokenistic, and won't change anything

~65 submissions so far

I might write one... unsure

@DogMan79 there are others including me that submitted our inquiries via the community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au email as well instead of through the website, that’s why you can only see that there were 65 submissions on the website 

Mine was brief:

"

National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026

On the topic of reassessing the first few years of participants, I want to write in favour of this

The first several years (At least up to and including 2018) had people automatically qualify on things like pension status, diagnosis etc. The idea was to jump-start the Scheme, which the Government didn’t anticipate would be popular. So they signed participants up too freely in those first several years"