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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Good document design is the key to accessibility
The Australian Government’s study into the Accessibility of the Portable Document Format for people with a disability
The web accessibility thread remains the most popular of our blog themes. Thanks to the work of Jacqui and Raven, it is the place to go to for relevant and reliable information on online accessibility issues in the Australian Government context. This trend continues today with this post heralding the release of the Australian Government’s study into the Accessibility of the Portable Document Format for people with a disability.
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New WCAG 2.0 Techniques released by the W3C
Announced in a media release last week, the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative has released a number of new and improved Techniques to meet or help meet WCAG 2.0. This is excellent news for agencies looking to create more dynamic or interactive websites, with the release of techniques for multimedia, Flash and WAI-ARIA.
Especially for agencies already using Flash on their websites, ensure you review these new techniques and comply with recommended processes to improve accessibility. Read more
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Guest Post: Common Accessibility Fails
This post from Kim Chatterjee is the first in a series of Invited Guest Posts from our CoE members. We encourage everyone to get involved in the Community, so if you want to participate by writing a Guest Post and sharing your advice or views on accessibility, please let us know.
Accessibility in the online space is not just about whether a blind user with a screen reader can understand your website. It is about providing universal access and an effective user experience. This caters for the needs of people with hearing impairments, cognitive and motor impairments, but also caters for a much broader audience. It includes the guy who forgot to pack the mouse in his laptop bag and is keyboard-dependent, the lady who broke her glasses and squints an inch from the screen, the tourist who checks his online booking on his mobile, the potential international student trying to understand your instructions, and the kid who lives in rural Australia still waiting for your page to finish loading. Good accessibility = good usability. Read more
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Welcome to the WCAG 2.0 Community of Expertise (CoE)
It has been a busy few months for the Accessibility and Style team. We are a small team of two – Jacqui & Raven – who endeavour to bring you all you need to know about accessibility of government websites. Since the endorsement of Version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) for government websites in late 2009, we’ve been working very hard in planning the implementation to the new web standard, developing the National Transition Strategy (NTS) and working one-on-one with agencies to find solutions to common (and sometimes uncommon) accessibility issues. Read more
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