Expired: PDF Accessibility Consultation Review
The content below was posted to the Web Publishing Guide between 16 September 2009 and 26 October 2009. This consultation is now closed. It is provided here as a reference only.
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An update on the PDF Accessibilty Review
In early September, AGIMO launched a project to review the accessibility support of the Portable Document Format (PDF), for use on government websites. The project is being run in collaboration with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Department of Families and Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).
The initial stage, the Public Consultation, began on September 16 and ran for about 6 weeks to 26 October 2009. We invited comments from many and in the end received just over 40 formal submissions from members of the public; peak disability groups; government departments; industry and accessibility experts.
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Blog Post Authoring Processes
At the risk of being overly self-referential, we thought our visitors might benefit from observing the workings behind this blog (even though the blog is offering a chance for visitors to observe the workings behind the project).
As stated on our about page, this blog’s content is produced by several authors from the review team, with posts going out on a semi-regular basis. The style we’re adopting is considerably less formal than what you may find on the Guide, and the blog content review process is slightly less rigourous, requiring a much lower level of sign-off than one would expect for a significant policy addition/modification to the Guide.
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Focus Group Research Report – Drilling Down
Update: We’ve discovered some accessibility issues with the in-blog version of this document. To view it in this format, it’s available at http://www.slideshare.net/webpublishing/agimo-web-publishing-guide-review-research-report, other formats are below
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Quick Technical Wins
While a major site redevelopment and renewal is underway, business as usual still needs to continue. Some of the minor technical changes which don’t require high-level sign-off are easy to roll-out in parallel.
So, this week, without any major changes to our underlying technology, governance arrangements or content scope, we’ve been able to quickly perform the following:
1. Customised Agency Search results
Previous implementations of our search results page relied on an XML wrapper to process the results from Funnelback’s Agency Search service – with our move to some new infrastructure a few months ago, this process ‘broke’, and the quick fix was to move back to the hosted variation of the Agency Search Service (using the default look and feel).
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