Order, Simon. 2020. Quarantine Takeover, Radio WLOY, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (29th September 2020)
http://wloy.org/page/3/
https://www.mixcloud.com/liminal-drifter/radio-wloy-baltimore-maryland-usa-liminal-drifter-quarantine-take-over-show/
Simon’s role as the media consultant for Ability Heroes, brings many threads of his diverse and exciting career together, offering passionate and critical contributions to the team. Simon’s role includes media and communications advisor, content producer – podcast, technical writer, audio, photography and talent – interviewer, music producer, producer.
His extensive background in the media and communications industry, tertiary education, academic research, the not-for-profit sector, and stakeholder engagement coalesce a vibrant and diverse mix of skills rarely available in one human being.
Simon is a polymath by nature, always happy synthesizing data, media, ideas and potential to produce innovative and creative outcomes.
Simon is a highly creative academic and industry practitioner in the fields community policy, public policy, communications, broadcast media, sound, radio, and creative media; responsive to new disciplinary ideas and technologies; always looking to enhance project success within an educational and industry environment.
Order, Simon. 2020. Quarantine Takeover, Radio WLOY, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. (29th September 2020)
http://wloy.org/page/3/
https://www.mixcloud.com/liminal-drifter/radio-wloy-baltimore-maryland-usa-liminal-drifter-quarantine-take-over-show/
Order Simon. 2019. “SBS Chill Liminal Drifter Takeover”, radio presenting and music curation for SBS Chill radio station 31st October. Melbourne, Australia.
https://www.sbs.com.au/radio/article/2019/10/29/liminal-drifter-guest-programs-sbs-chill-how-listen https://www.sbs.com.au/radio/article/2019/11/01/liminal-drifter-takeover-playlist https://www.mixcloud.com/liminal-drifter/sbs-chill-liminal-drifter-takeover/
Order, Simon and John Diliberto (16 January 2019), “Enter the dreams of Liminal Drifter the Aussie electronic persona of Dr. Simon Order. The Doctor is in. Start dreaming when we talk with Liminal Drifter tonight on Echoes.org“. PBS Radio Interview, USA. Listen here. Read here
Order, Simon and KMSC Dragon Radio (26th November 2018), The Dreams Inspiration”. Live radio interview – New Music show- KMSC Dragon Radio, Minnesota, USA.
Order, Simon and Sandy Marwick, (20 July 2018), The Dreams Interview, Western Oz, 89.7FM Twin Cities, Perth Listen here
Order, Simon and Michael Barker (12 April 2018) Fremantle Shipping News – Magazine Interview/Podcast, “Electronic Music and Liminal Drifter”
https://fremantleshippingnews.com.au/2018/04/27/interview-with-simon-order/
Order, Simon and Elicia Petite 2016 (September 16) Liminal Drifter – Technology, Troubled Mystic, Hidden Shoal Anniversary Remix and Second LD album. “Artist Interviews”, Pirate 88 Radio
Order Simon and Fred Sim 2015 (October 10) Liminal Drifter- Troubled Mystic album release: Radio Interview. RTRFM Artificial Intelligence and Morning Magazine programs.
https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liminal-drifter-interview-w-fred-sims-on-rtrfm
Order, Simon. 2014. “Murdoch University re-images a career in Radio”, Radioinfo.
https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/murdoch-university-re-images-career-radio-0
Order, Simon and Geraldine Alphonse, (1 July 2018), Tickles Show, Radio Fremantle. Listen here. Read Here
Order, Simon and Brayden Edwards(12 June 2018), LIMINAL DRIFTER Dreams become reality. Express Magazine, online interview, Perth.
Order, Simon and Caitlin Nienaber (28th June 2018) The Dreams of Liminal Drifter. Breakfast Radio Interview, RTRFM, Perth. Feature album of the Week. Listen here
Order, Simon and HHhappy (25 June 2018), Transcribing the space in between: a chat with Fremantle-based producer Liminal Drifter. Online interview with Happy Mag, Sydney, Australia.
Order, Simon and Taylah Strano (9th September 2017) Breakfast – RTRFM, Perth, Radio Interview, The Night Train Vacancies, album release (NTRO)
Order, Simon and Sophie Comber 2017 (March 9th) The Wire (CRN Adelaide) Radio Interview- About “Community Radio and the Joy of Social Connection Report”
http://thewire.org.au/story/community-connections-stronger-airwaves/
Order, Simon and Roger Broadbent 2017 (June 16th 0900). The Brighter Side – Radio Eastern FM, Melbourne, Radio Interview -About “Community Radio and the Joy of Social Connection Report”.
https://soundcloud.com/simon-order/community-radio-and-the-joy-of-social-connection-report/s-UR3wz
Order Simon and Tom Laird 2015 (October 26) Liminal Drifter – The Making of Troubled Mystic: Radio Interview. “Fade to Yellow” Program, KOOP Radio, Austin, Texas.
https://soundcloud.com/hidden_shoal/liminal-drifter-interview-on-fade-to-yellow-koop
Order Simon and Tanya Bunter 2015 (20 August) Community Radio Research & RTRFM: Radio Interview. RTRFM 92.1 Morning Magazine.
Order, Simon and Brian Daya. 2014 (15 May) Community Radio and the Commission of Audit: Radio Interview. Edited by Brian Daya. Radio Fremantle
Order, Simon and Hui Lin. Tan. 2014 (11th March). Community Radio and Value: Radio Interview. Edited by Hui Lin Tan. 6EBA Radio Station Perth
Sturgess, Kylie, Order, Simon. (2021), Design specifications for an online audio-arts learning platform virtuoso. PhD internship collaboration with Cinglevue. $20,000. Cinglevue PhD internship research programme.
Order, Simon., Phillips, Gail., O’Mahony, Lauren., Sturgess, Kylie. (2021), ‘The vision impaired as a radio audience: meeting their audio needs in the 21st century’, Journal of Radio and Audio Media. (in press) $5,000 School Arts, Murdoch University.
Order, Simon and Stuart Reid (2018) RTRFM Perth/West Australian Council for Social Services (WACOSS), Social Impact Study of Community Radio (RTRFM). Read here $15,000 WACOSS/RTRFM.
Order, Simon. Community Radio: The Joy of Social Connection. Consultancy Report. (August 2017). $15,000, Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF)
https://www.cbaa.org.au/resource/community-radio-joy-social-connection
Order, Simon. (2015), ‘ICreate’: Preliminary usability testing of apps for the music technology classroom, Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 12 (4). $2,000 School of Arts, Murdoch University.
Ability Heroes
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to