The study highlights the critical with disabilities exhibiting a higher rate, both gaps in access to information for persons genders with severe disabilities experience with disabilities in Cambodia and provides considerably lower employment and paid evidence-based recommendations to enhance job opportunities. [...] There is a discrepancy between the efforts to promote widespread knowledge modes of access used by persons with disabilities and understanding of disability inclusion and and the formats provided by information information accessibility. [...] To improve the accessibility and usability supporting the information needs of persons of information for persons with disabilities, with disabilities, and there is a general lack of information should have the following awareness on how to assist them effectively. [...] The Law on Access to Information should • Clear and simple: Information should be be expedited and enacted with specific presented in plain language, avoiding jargon, provisions that cater to the needs of and structured in a visually supportive persons with disabilities. [...] and implementation of disability inclusion "Experiences of Students with Disabilities and information accessibility among during the COVID-19 Interruption of In- government officials, information providers, Person Instruction." Journal of Postsecondary and the general public.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction 1
- In Cambodia one in four people over five years old are estimated to have some form of disability. 1
- This group tends to be older female and residing in rural areas. The most common types of disabilities include difficulties in seeing remembering and walkingclimbing. 1
- Education and work opportunities are limited especially for women with severe disabilities. 1
- Their health and quality of life are lower overall. 1
- There is no specific legal framework in Cambodia addressing access to information specifically 1
- Persons with disabilities access information through four methods mass media agents events 1
- Despite the currently accessible information and availability of appropriate modes of access 1
- Key findings 2
- Demography 2
- Status of policies and practices 2
- Figure 1. Comparison between the status of policies and practices related to access to information for persons with disabilities 2
- Figure 2. Overall Modes of Communication to Access Information for Persons with Disabilities 3
- Status of information access 3
- Mode of communicationexchanging information 3
- Current information accessedreceived 3
- Challenges in accessing information 4
- External factors 4
- Health conditions 4
- Internal factors 4
- What information do persons with disabilities need 4
- Figure 3. Type and characteristics of information demanded by persons with disabilities 5
- Tailored formats 5
- Trustworthy and credible 5
- Translated 5
- Clear and simple 5
- Timeliness 5
- Accessible channels 5
- Recommendations Legislative and Policy Reforms 5
- Capacity Building and Awareness 6
- Monitoring and Oversight 6
- Infrastructure and Technological 6
- Enhancements 6
- Engagement with the Private Sector 6
- References 6
- Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability 6
- Handbook of Labor Human Resources and Population Economics 6
- A Steady Path Forward UNESCO 2022 Report on Public Access to Information SDG 16.10.2 6
- Convention on the 6
- Rights of Persons with Disabilities Articles 6
