Release of WCAG 2.0 Techniques for PDF
On 3 January 2012, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) published updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, including new techniques for the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Silverlight, and an update to Understanding WCAG 2.0.
With these new techniques now released, agencies need to incorporate as many of them as practicable, as well as the applicable general techniques, to increase the accessibility of their PDFs. Read more
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e-Publication accessibility
Recently the Australian Security Research Centre hosted an information sharing session on “i-documents & other e-publications”. It included information on a range of e-publishing trends including the use of EPUB and various other formats and their application in the government context. I spoke about accessibility and e-publications, and how the principles of accessible information apply to all e-publications. Read more
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Reaching all the people: an accessibility update from AGIMO on Thursday 27th October 2011
AGIMO’s Accessibility team would like to invite you to an upcoming web accessibility seminar, “Reaching all the people: an accessibility update from AGIMO”, to be hosted at University House on Thursday 27th October 2011.
As part of the Australian Government’s commitment to improved Web Accessibility, AGIMO is hosting a full day seminar for Australian Government web, ICT and communication professionals as well as staff responsible for implementing the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy (NTS) within their agency. Read more
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Social Media and the ANGST of Accessibility
In the “Integrating Online Services with your existing Community Engagement Strategy” conference last week, along with John Sheridan’s Taming Twitter Terrorism, I presented some insights and the top five tips when using social media to engage with people.
Accessibility needs frequently confound people. This can result in inaction. Through inaction, we create exclusion. To avoid this, I offer some ideas to ensure accessibility needs can be met, thus promoting inclusion. Read more
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Draft WCAG 2.0 techniques for review – PDF and Silverlight
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has released draft versions of WCAG 2.0 techniques to support PDF and Silverlight and has issued a call for review. AGIMO are particularly interested in the draft PDF techniques for WCAG 2.0. Read more
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HTML5 and Accessibility
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently invited a broad review of HTML5 and related specifications to help resolve outstanding issues. The review is being undertaken to ensure that the specification meets W3C’s commitments in areas such as accessibility. Read more
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AGIMO wins accessibility award
Regular readers of our blog will know that the Accessibility section of our blog attracts a great deal of attention. Our web accessibility team, led by Jacqui van Teulingen, has done a tremendous job in furthering discussion and action on accessibility. The Australian Government’s position on WCAG 2.0, as reflected in the National Transition Strategy, is a testament to the hard work of the team. Together with their colleagues from similar teams across the Australian Public Service, they have considerably advanced the accessibility cause in the web content area. Read more
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Testing PDF Accessibility
Recently Adobe ran a series of education sessions for public servants in Canberra about optimising PDF documents for accessibility. AGIMO has published the Adobe presentations on the Web Guide to ensure agencies have access to these materials.
Building accessibility into documents is essential, however testing for accessibility is an important part of ensuring the highest levels of accessibility are met. We recently came across an interesting paper presented at the 2011 CSUN conference which provided a Comparison of PDF Testing Tools. Read more
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PDF Accessibility Education Sessions for the Australian Government
Adobe are running a series of education sessions in Canberra on optimising PDF documents for accessibility. These sessions have been designed specifically for Australian Public Servants (APS). We are very keen to build PDF authoring skills across the APS, so, if you are a member of the APS and are responsible for authoring content or providing public information on Australian Government websites, these sessions are for you. Read more
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Guest Post: Get ready for 1 May 2011 – the FOI Information Publication Scheme
This post is from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The OAIC is working with AGIMO to develop accessibility advice for agencies for the Information Publication Scheme (IPS).
We hope this post will contribute to agencies’ understanding of how to comply with the accessibility requirements in the context of the IPS, and to help agencies get ready for 1 May 2011. Read more
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