2024-04-26 08:35:24
ORF’s program focuses on the European Day of Protest for Disability Equality
Vienna (OTS) – On Thursday, April 25, 2024, the corporate dialogue Project Zero took place at the ORF media campus in Vienna, which aims – initiated by the Essl Foundation – to talk about the employment of people with disabilities in companies and the potential of skilled workers with disabilities. In addition to the General Director of ORF Mag. Roland Weißmann and Professor Pius Strobl, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility ORF, numerous entrepreneurs who participated in the exchange were present. In line with the corporate dialogue that took place, the ORF is presenting its media focus on “Inclusion Day”, which will take place around May 5.
Zero Project corporate dialogue on ORF
Project Zero is a non-profit initiative of the Essl Foundation and is committed to the rights of people with disabilities worldwide in accordance with the UN Convention, which Austria has also ratified. The dialogues with companies of the same name are an initiative to convince many companies in Austria that it makes economic sense to employ disabled people based on their talents and that it represents significant added value for the economy and society. With examples of good practice and keynotes, new perspectives and solution approaches are expressed in the company dialogue to sustainably increase inclusion and diversity in companies.
For the ORF, too, the goal was to promote the exchange about the employment of people with disabilities by organizing a Zero Project corporate dialogue and showing the potential of skilled workers with disabilities, which contributes to a visible increase in added value enterprise. In addition to the General Director of ORF Mag. Roland Weißmann and Professor Pius Strobl, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility ORF, numerous entrepreneurs from the local economy were present.
As part of the program there was a keynote speech by Barbara Stöckl and Peter Resetarits on the topic “Representation of disabled people over time”, during which ORF III and Kapsch Traffic Com presented examples of good practice. and AfB (“Work for People with Disabilities”) as well as the presentation of the operational service NEBA as a service for companies to hire skilled workers with disabilities. The corporate dialogue at Zero Project on the ORF media campus was moderated by Miriam Labus and Stefan Lenglinger.
Award to ORF for social-ecological commitment
As part of the Zero Project corporate dialogue, the non-profit IT company AfB (“Work for Disabled People”) presented the ORF with a certificate for its social-ecological commitment in the IT sector for the third time. Director General ORF Mag. Franz-Joseph Huainigg, Accessibility Officer at ORF, accepted the award for the collaboration with the non-profit AfB GmbH and K-Businesscom as ORF’s IT outsourcing partner during the event. From 2021, IT devices that ORF retires at the end of their life have been accepted by the AfB as a refurbishment partner for reprocessing and marketing. Due to the number and quality of the devices provided, the ORF was able to secure two jobs for disabled people last year as part of the partnership with the AFB.
The ORF program will target around May 5, 2024
As part of ORF’s focus, the diversity of the potential of people with disabilities is shown on television, radio and online.
Regarding “Inclusion Day” in ORF 2 and the state studios
ORF 2 is dedicated to “Inclusion Day” with several contributions and programs. On Friday, May 3, “Guten Morgen Österreich” will focus on what it means to deal with everyday life with a physical or mental impairment. Daniela Rammel, an employee of the ÖZIV Federal Association, will be a live guest in the studio. From 9.55 am ORF 2 will show “Special without Borders – The Sports Magazine for People with Disabilities”. Nico Langmann will be a guest on the show. The wheelchair tennis player talks to presenter Miriam Labus about his hopes for the 2024 Paralympics in Paris, his “Nico Langmann Foundation”, which aims to make access to sports equipment easier for children, as well as the progress and challenges on the subject. coverage of sport in the media. In addition, the Inclusion Run 2024, which took place as part of the 41st Vienna City Marathon, and the Herbert Pichler Cup 2024, the third edition of which is a world-class inclusive sports event in memory of the late inclusion fighter Herbert Pichler, will be highlighted also in the articles. The following day, May 4, the TV film “Just as You Are” is shown on ORF 2 at 11 am, which tells the sad story of Helene, a judge, who takes care of the young Michalina after a car accident. syndrome. “Aktuell nach Fünf” Zero Project’s corporate dialogue on ORF on Sunday, May 5, shows the best practice examples from the event and shows why the inclusion of people with disabilities is so important for companies. In the evening of the same day there will be an ORF premiere at 11:05 In the documentary “Let Me Fly,” the director Evelyne Faye is with four young people with Down syndrome. Their goals, job search, their participation in social and political life, but also the obstacles that accompany them are the focus of the documents.
ORF’s regional studios also report on “Inclusion Day”. The Vienna State Studio will contribute to work with disabilities on May 1, Labor Day. As examples of this, Kapsch and the Marienapotheke are part of the article, which appears in “Vienna Today” and is presented as a feature in “Radio Wien” and online. The ORF Tirol regional studio reports in “Tirol today” in an article about the Vomp community, which has been the holder of the “We are inclusive” quality seal for years, as well as the inclusive kindergarten there, which has its own director. under disability. ORF’s regional studio for Lower Austria draws attention to “Inclusion Day” in two articles: In the article “Inclusion while studying,” which will be embedded in “Lower Austria Today,” Radio Lower Austria and online, students about a disability was taken through a typical university day and showed the challenges of everyday study. A report on “Personal Assistance” will be heard on “Radio NÖ am Vormittag” on May 3rd, in which a Lower Austrian woman in the Mostviertel who trained as a nursing assistant through a second education opportunity will be visited. The aim of the article is to show what opportunities personal assistance provides for people with disabilities to enable them to live their lives more freely.
ORF III will broadcast a report on the “Day of Inclusion” event on May 5 and show an expert discussion on “ORF III Aktuell” on May 6 on the subject of inclusion at work.
The ORF and “Inclusion Day” radios
On “Inclusion Day”, Sunday, May 5, Ö1 will publish the article “Inclusion means: mixed – a story of friendship (school)” in “Lebenskunst”, in which Lisa Ganglbaur will present the integrated upper school of the school. Evangelisches Realgymnasium in Vienna-Donaustadt which was visited. From 8:15 am to 9:00 am, “an artwork for the European Day of Inclusion” will be presented in the format “You holde art,” in which Roland Koch will read poems by Unica Zürn and Ernst Herbeck. In a three-part radio series, to be heard from May 6th to May 8th from 9:05 am to 9:30 am, Ö1 will also address the questions of how visible disabled people are in public and what it takes they have to be present in different ways that can participate in public areas. The Radiokolleg is produced together with the comprehensive editorial teams of “Freak Radio”, “other side” and the comprehensive teaching editorial team at ORF. In addition, the actress and director Kristina Sprenger will be a guest on the Ö1 podcast “Inclusion belongs lived” from May 8 in the episode “Superassistenz” and she will try to be a personal assistant. Every Wednesday there is a new episode on the Ö1 podcast “Inclusion belongs to life”, designed by the FreakCasters, Barbara Sima-Ruml or Marietta Trendl and Franz-Joseph Huainigg. A transcript of the broadcasts can also be found on Ö1’s homepage.
This year, around the “Day of Inclusion”, Hitradio Ö3 will note on all Ö3 channels how clichés and prejudices turn disability into reality – thus sensitizing the country to visible barriers and, above all, to mental barriers .
FM4 reports on the situation of people with ME/CFS around the day of action on 12 May and asks what the current status of medical care in Austria is. FM4 has already supported people with ME/CFS as part of the LIGHT IN THE DARK 2023 project and is waiting on the subject and asking what has happened since then.
ORF KIDS on “Inclusion Day”
The ORF KIDS program will show the four-part series “Explain to me how you live” on May 5 at 7:55 am, in which children with different disabilities will give an insight into their lives. Their peers accompany them through their daily school and private lives, which means they get to know each other’s different realities.
All information about inclusion in the ORF.at network and in ORF TELETEXT
As part of its current overview reporting, ORF.at is dedicated to the topics of accessibility and inclusion in society, while ORF Topos analyzes central problem areas and potential solution models to be included in a multimedia story. Streams of the TV programs are offered in the program focus on ORF ON and in the ORF-TVthek (web + app), provided they are available under the license law. The ORF TELETEXT also provides up-to-date information about Inclusion Day.
Accessibility and inclusion are fundamental focal points in the ORF.at and ORF TELETEXT network – both in reporting and in the provision of barrier-free offers. The ORF.at network is based on version 2.2 of the WCAG guidelines for the accessibility of its offers and also provides daily news in plain language. Many programs with subtitles, ÖGS, audio descriptions and transcripts are always available on ORF ON and in the ORF TVthek app. In addition, the video archive “Self-determination and diversity: living inclusion in society” also provides information on a wide range of aspects of the subject.
ORF TELETEXT’s ongoing barrier-free offerings include program subtitling (page 777), plain language news and the “Reading instead of listen” magazine.
The focus is on inclusive, unhindered ORF inclusion
TV programs focus on inclusion are broadcast comprehensively and barrier-free on ORF 2, ORF III and ORF SPORT+. The programs for deaf and hard of hearing viewers are provided with subtitles on ORF TELETEXT on page 777 and on ORF TVthek. In addition, “OHNE BRENZEN Spezial” will be interpreted into Austrian sign language and broadcast on ORF 2 Europe. “WITHOUT BORDERS Special” and the documentary film “Let me fly” are also available for the blind and visually impaired with audio description on the second soundtrack, which can be set via the remote control. The accessible programs are available as video on demand at ar.ORF.at and in the ORF TVthek app.
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