Basically this is when a person with a disability is treated less favourably because of their disability. This discrimination, under the DDA, applies to carers and others associated with the person with the disability. Indirect discrimination is much more common and not so easy to identify. Although some indirect discrimination is not intentional, this is unfortunately not always the case. Indirect discrimination occurs when a term or condition is imposed and where a person with a disability cannot comply.
Physical barriers are common examples of indirect discrimination.
Inciting or aiding discrimination means encouraging someone else to discriminate or helping them to do it. Advertising an intention to discriminate would most commonly occur in relation to employment advertising and job descriptions where an essential criteria creates discrimination, and is not an inherent requirement. These offences are considered by the Federal Criminal Offences and would be prosecuted by the Federal Director of Public Prosecutions. The following guidelines outline some specific problems in photocopied and print materials provided to the Royal Blind Society for scanning or reading onto audiotape. The problems described alone do not necessarily render the text un-scannable, but do mean that a high degree of editing is necessary, which is very labour intensive and time consuming.