EduLinked exists to expand meaningful learning and communication for everyone
EduLinked exists to expand meaningful learning and communication for everyone — especially people who are disabled, marginalised, or excluded by mainstream systems — through accessible design, community-led practice, and ethical use of technology.
What it means: We design so everyone can participate, not only those who already fit the system. We seek out, respect and centre voices that are too often excluded.
Our commitment: Co-design with people with lived experience at every stage, recruit and contract people with disability, and ensure events and materials proactively remove participation barriers.
What it means: Accessibility is not an afterthought or checkbox — it's a design principle.
Our commitment: All core materials will be published in multiple accessible formats (Easy Read, large print, audio, Auslan-friendly scripts and machine-readable metadata). We aim for 100% of core assets in at least one alternative format.
Person-centred practice
What it means: We share power and decision-making with the people we serve, rather than acting on their behalf without consent.
Our commitment: Practice partner-led decision making, transparent consent processes, and mechanisms for participants to shape services and to withdraw consent at any time. This is fundamental to our duty of care.
What it means: We treat people with basic dignity and respect, recognising cultural identities (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), and safeguard psychological and physical safety.
Our commitment: Cultural safety training for staff and partners, culturally appropriate materials, and consultation with relevant communities.
What it means: People's safety, agency and privacy come before organisational convenience. We approach data and interactions with a presumption of confidentiality and informed consent.
Our commitment: Clear, plain-language consent, robust data governance, secure storage and limited retention, and transparent provenance and audit trails for records.
What it means: Products and services are best when created with — not merely for — the people who will use them.
Our commitment: Paid co-design roles, community testing, and accessible feedback loops built into every project.
What it means: We hold ourselves to honest, open standards in communications, funding, partnerships and reporting.
Our commitment: Publish accessible summaries of decisions, funding uses, program evaluation results and updates to governance documents.
What it means: We combine lived experience with evidence and reflective practice to improve outcomes.
Our commitment: Measure outcomes, publish monitoring & evaluation in accessible formats, and adapt programs from learning.
What it means: Technology must increase agency and inclusion — not surveil, exclude or harm.
Our commitment: Adopt human-centred design, privacy-first defaults, offline/low-connectivity options, and ethical review of AI/automation before deployment.
What it means: We act responsibly toward people, communities and the environment.
Our commitment: Prefer local suppliers, minimise environmental impact at events and in production, and make procurement choices consistent with inclusion and community benefit.
We prioritise accessible, low-bandwidth, and alternative-format outputs (Easy Read, Auslan scripts, captions, transcripts). Developer notes will include brief Auslan signer scripts for pages and core assets.
We expect partners to demonstrate inclusive practice and accessibility commitments; we prioritise local and culturally competent suppliers where practicable.
Facilitators will be briefed on accessible modes (assisted completion, alternative formats), and events will offer assisted completion, privacy-preserving participant codes, and options for follow-up.
We publish accessible annual reports, run community reference checks, and operate an independent complaints and remediation process.
Target — all core assets available in at least one alternative format (Easy Read, large print, Auslan script, or audio).
Minimum paid co-design roles for every major program or product.
Apply person-centred, respectful practice and maintain appropriate compliance standards for NDIS clients and other regulated contexts.
Maintain provenance, versioning and audit trails for records; apply a privacy-first approach for participant data. (See our Semantic Protocol Guide for technical standards and contact details.)
We take breaches of these values seriously. Anyone — participants, staff, partners or funders — may contact us to raise concerns or request remediation. Complaints will be handled according to a published, accessible process and investigated by an independent reviewer where appropriate.
Contact: founder@edulinked.com.au
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