Unlocking Digital Accessibility for People With Disabilities

On the program today, we’re going to meet an endangered hairy nose wombat. Then we’ll learn how a first nations language is using emoji’s. Next, we’ll find out about Global Accessibility Awareness Day. After that, we’ll train a very special camera on a super massive black hole. And finally, we talk to plants.

Special thanks to the Lilach Hadany and all the authors of the paper "Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative" paper for supplying the sounds of plants talking.

QUIZ QUESTIONS:

1. 1.How many days can the northern hairy-nosed wombat stay in their burrows?
2. 2.What are emoji's?
3. 3.Global Accessibility Awareness day?
4. 4.What are black holes in space?
5. 5.How do plants talk?

BONUS TRICKY QUESTION:

What is an ecologist?

ANSWERS:

1. 1.Up to 12.
2. 2.Emoji’s are digital pictures or icons that express an idea or emotion.
3. 3.It’s a day when we think about the challenges people with disabilities have in accessing the internet and digital technology.
4. 4.They recycle bits of stars and help keep galaxies stable.
5. 5.Researchers say the sounds are made by air bubbles expanding and bursting inside a plant’s water-conducting tissue.

BONUS TRICKY ANSWER:

They’re scientists who studies how things live.