The Office of the eSafety Commissioner provides Help in Easy English – for people who are challenged in English – such as the CALD community. This is Easy to read online safety advice with images to support the key messages.
Easy to Read
These resources are for people with low literacy, or with intellectual or cognitive disabilities.
A support person may help the reader to understand the information and make decisions about the advice.
These downloadable booklets:
- explain one idea per sentence
- use basic language and grammar
- use subheadings, bullet points and white space to break up the text
- use a simple font, layout and design
- use images that are easily understood and add meaning to the text.
For children and adults
Being safe online
This booklet helps the reader understand how to stay safe online, the concepts of privacy and online friends, and how to get help if something goes wrong.
Being safe online — Easy English (PDF, 3.38MB)
For adults
What you can do about image-based abuse
This booklet explains the concept of image-based abuse and how to get help if it happens.
Image-based abuse means sharing or threatening to share an intimate image or video without the consent of the person shown in it.
What you can do about image based abuse — Easy English (PDF, 3.07MB)
What you can do about abuse through technology
This booklet explains the concept of technology-facilitated abuse and how to get help if it happens.
Technology-facilitated abuse is behaviour that uses digital technology to harass, monitor, impersonate or threaten someone in order to control, frighten or humiliate them.
What you can do about abuse through technology — Easy English (PDF, 4.89MB)
