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Accessibility Online and Web - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about accessibility of government websites.
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- Accessibility and PDFs
- Presentation by Gian Wild to the Victoria Online Seminar in Melbourne, 14 October 2010. Some highlights include: PDF is not defined as an 'accessible technology' because: The design of the PDF file (and no universal definition of an 'accessible PDF); Technical ability of the assistive technologies; Skill of the end user (using an assistive technology with a PDF is different to HTML)...
Added: 14 October 2010
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- Accessibility Course helps Government Meet National Transition Strategy Deadlines
- Media Access Australia, in collaboration with the University of South Australia, has developed Australia's only university-backed web accessibility course for web professionals. The Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility aims to support the Australian Government's commitment to making government websites accessible as part of the National Transition Strategy (NTS) by equipping technical and managerial staff with web accessibility expertise.
Added: 15 June 2012
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- Accessibility Standard
- The Accessibility standard directs Victorian Government Departments and Agencies to make their websites compliant version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0)
Added: 18 October 2005
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- Accessibility, Usability and User Centred Design - 1. Accessibility
- Content of the presentation includes: why accessibility?; assistive technologies and adaptive strategies; and designing and developing. Examines accessibility policies in Europe, the United States and other countries around the world as well as WCAG 1.0 and 2.0.
Added: 3 August 2010
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- Making the Web Accessible
- Presentation by Ajay Kolhatkar, PhD Future Web Research Lab, SETLabs - on the importance of making the web more accessible for the physically challenged. This was presented at the 1st International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets held at ISB, Hyderabad 23 and 2 September, 2010. The presentation covers: A day in the life of a disabled user; What is web accessibility; An overview on assistive technologies; Making the web accessible - Regulatory considerations (laws), standards and guidelines, voluntary efforts, and some techniques used in web accessibility.
Added: 13 October 2010
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- Victorian Government Accessibility Toolkit - Version 2 June 2007
- Version 3 of the toolkit has been published in pdf and word formats. An accessible HTML version of the toolkit is currently being developed and will be published shortly. Until this occurs Version 2 of the toolkit is made available in HTML. This is Section 1 of the Victorian Government's Accessiblity Toolkit providing an overview of the contents of the toolkit.
Added: 28 November 2005
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- Web Accessibility: A Shared Responsibility
- This a presentation by Joe Dolson prepared for a Montana Web Developer’s Meetup in December, 2011. The focus is on collaborating with content providers and employers to share the responsibility for web accessibility.
Added: 16 February 2012
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- Global Accessibility Awareness Day May 9 2013
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day is a community-driven effort whose goal is to dedicate one day to raising the profile of and introducing the topic of digital (web, software, mobile app/device etc.) accessibility and people with different disabilities to the broadest audience possible. The target audience of GAAD is the design, development, usability, and related communities who build, shape, fund and influence technology and its use...
Added: 9 May 2013;
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- Accessibility in Social Media
- by Jacqui van Teulingen - AGIMO Blog, 21 March 2013. "For some time we've been talking about Accessibility in Social Media and have provided lots of tips on how to make the Government's use of Social Media more accessible for people who may be using adaptive strategies or assistive technologies..."
Added: 21 March 2013;
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- Accessibility Week 2013
- Hosted by AccessibilityOz, the week will be covering many key aspects of accessibility from mobile, HTML5, JavaScript, Video Captioning to PDF with experts on hand throughout the week to answer any specific questions you may have. At both events they will be showcasing the AccessibilityOz Reporting Tool: OzART and can show you how well your site homepage performs against the rest! They will also be launching their very own accessible video player. Accessibility Week 2013 locations and dates are: - Canberra – Monday 6th to Friday 12th May - Melbourne – Monday 22nd to Friday 26th July
Added: 18 March 2013;
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- Texas Launches Website Accessibility Scanning Program
- By Brian Heaton. Government Technology, October 19, 2012. "The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) is launching an online scanning program that should help state agencies improve access to public websites for people with disabilities. Starting later this month, the DIR will use an automated process to review the top 150 pages of every state agency website. Once complete, reports on what pages and electronic documents are out of compliance with accessibility standards will be sent to agency accessibility coordinators. The coordinators will then work with content developers to correct the errors. The DIR is using WorldSpace Sync from Deque Systems, which analyzes key portions of websites and provides details on what accessibility problems exist. The scans will occur on a monthly basis. Local government entities and state-funded educational institutions in Texas will also be able to use the technology in the future..."
Added: 22 October 2012;
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- Accessibility, WordPress and the Web Toolkit
- By Jason Kiss, New Zealand Government Web Toolkit, 8 October 2012. "The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (external site) define ways to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. They form a core component of the New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0. This site uses WordPress version 3.4 (external site). While the default WordPress theme (external site) is fairly accessible out-of-the-box, there are parts of it that need some tweaking in order to improve accessibility. Since we wanted to meet WCAG 2.0 requirements, but also reproduce, more or less, the design of the old webstandards.govt.nz website (external site), we developed our own WordPress theme effectively from scratch. In this post, I briefly summarise three of the things we did to improve accessibility and/or meet specific WCAG 2.0 guidelines. These are changes you can make whether you start with the default WordPress theme or build your own..."
Added: 11 October 2012;
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- Android Accessibility Testing and Fixing in 30 seconds
- by Ted. Last-Child, Posted on September 7, 2012. "The Google Accessibility team recently invited Android developers from around the Bay Area to spend an afternoon learning how to make their applications accessible. The event showed these developers how easy it is to make their applications as accessible as possible. One of the tools featured was Android Lint..."
Added: 20 September 2012;
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- Captcha Monster - Automatic Website Captcha Code Filler
- Information provided by Captcha Monster. Disabled World, 27 June 2012. "Captcha Monster is an easy-to-use innovative Firefox add-on that completes CAPTCHA tests without you even asking it to. The add-on was designed with people who suffer from dyslexia and/or sight problems in mind, but also extends to those who are just plain fed up with deciphering those hard to read letter and number jumbles..."
Added: 2 August 2012;
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- Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility
- Build practical accessibility expertise. University of South Australia, Course mode: Online, Course date: Monday 8 October - Friday 16 November 2012, Registrations close: Tuesday 25 September 2012, Cost: $2,080 + GST. With the Australian Government and the Human Rights Commission adopting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, this six-week online course, Australia's first tertiary-backed accessibility course for web professionals, will give you the skills needed to meet the demand for inclusive design and development...
Added: 15 June 2012;
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- Web Accessibility: Putting People and Processes First
- By Brian Kelly. E-Access Bulletin Live, May 29th, 2012. "For many web authors, developers and policy makers, the issue of accessibility to disabled people is addressed mainly by trying to ensure that their sites conform with the international Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) maintained by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium... However, ... Are web developers and web authors who have embraced WCAG guidelines unknowingly creating barriers for people with disabilities?” This question could also be asked of government policy makers. There is a need for an alternative approach which caters for the limitations of policy based solely on WCAG conformance...""
Added: 4 June 2012;
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- Forcing Standardization or Accommodating Diversity? A Framework for Applying the WCAG in the Real World
- by Brian Kelly, David Sloan, Lawrie Phipps, Helen Petrie, Fraser Hamilton. Paper was accepted by the International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility held in Chiba, near Tokyo, Japan on 20th May 2005. "Abstract: Since 1999 the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have provided a solid basis for implementation of accessible Web design. However it is argued that in the context of evaluation and policymaking, inappropriate reference to the WCAG may lead to serious practical difficulties in implementation and monitoring of an effective accessibility policy. There is a pressing need for a framework that guides appropriate application of the WCAG in a holistic way, taking into account the diversity - or homogeneity - of factors such as context of use, audience and audience capability, and access environment. In particular, the current promotion of W3C technologies at the expense of widely used and accessible proprietary technologies may be problematic, as is the apparent reliance of the WCAG on compliant browsing technology. In this paper, a holistic application of the WCAG is proposed by the authors, whereby the context of the Web resource in question and other factors surrounding its use are used to shape an approach to accessible design. Its potential application in a real world environment is discussed..."
Added: 4 June 2012;
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- Aversive Disablism, Web Accessibility and the Web Developer
- Posted by Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) on 1 May 2012. "... My contribution will be to explore the question: 'are web developers and web authors who have embraced WCAG guidelines unknowingly creating barriers for people with disabilities'..."
Added: 4 June 2012;
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- Measuring accessibility
- By Roger Hudson, DingoAccess Random thoughts, stories and ideas from Roger Hudson of Web Usability, 2 November 2011. "There has been much discussion, and some arguments, about how to determine the accessibility of websites. Unfortunately, this is often polarised around two simplistic choices: A compliance/conformance based approach that usually involves a checklist of criteria; or, some form of user testing by people who have different disabilities and/or who rely on different assistive technologies. Both approaches have their strength and limitations, and neither can provide a reliable declaration about the accessibility of a site on its own..."
Added: 23 February 2012;
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- eAccessibility site aims for feedback from disabled ICT users
- Posted by John Lamb. Public Technology. 24 November 2011. "A new website allowing disabled people to tell government and business how to make the Internet more accessible has been launched by communications minister Ed Vaizey..."
Added: 25 November 2011;
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- Unusual words: accessibility for web writers, part 13
- by Dey Alexander. 4 Syllables, October 19, 2011. "People with certain cognitive, language or learning disabilities may find it hard to understand your content if you use unusual words or use words in unusual ways. Jargon and idioms are the two examples of this type of language. Avoiding jargon and idioms will make your content more accessible—and not just to people with disabilities..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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- Language of parts: accessibility for web writers, part 12
- by Dey Alexander. 4 Syllables. September 11, 2011. "If you use foreign language words or phrases in your content, you should identify them by using the appropriate language attribute in the markup for your page. This will ensure that: - Screen readers use the right pronunciation rules for the language; - Web browsers display the characters for the language properly. This is particularly important if the language uses a different alphabet or is read from right to left..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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