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Articles and resources about web accessibility in government.
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- Accessibility Best Practice
- Articles and resources about best practice examples of how to make your website accessible.
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Articles and resources about accessibility guidelines, and in particular government and W3C guidelines.
- Accessibility Legal Cases
- Archived articles and resources discussing particular legal cases relating to the accessibility of websites.
- Accessibility Metadata
- Articles and resources about how to create accessible metadata.
- Accessibility Online and Web
- Articles and resources about accessibility of websites.
- Accessibility Statements
- Articles and resources about how to write accessibility statements.
- Accessibility Technology
- Articles and resources about technology which assists in making websites accessible including screen readers and browsers.
- Accessibility Testing Tools
- Articles and resources about different types of testing tools that assess the accessibility of websites.
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- Accessibility - Articles: Part 1 - Archive
- General articles about web accessibility in government.
Added: 16 December 2005
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- Accessibility - Articles: Part 2 - Archive
- General articles about web accessibility in government.
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- Accessibility - Articles: Part 3 - Archive
- General articles about web accessibility in government.
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- Accessibility - Resources - Archive
- Resources about web accessibility in government.
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- Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2009
- Realising the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - January 21 - 23 2009 at La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria (near Melbourne), Australia. November 30, 2008 - early bird registration rates end. Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses, and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and these developments at OZeWAI 2009. The following topics are very relevant: Web 2.0 accessibility and Accessibility 2.0; making resources suitably adaptable; auditing Websites and resources for adaptability and standards compliance; repairing inaccessible content; discovering accessible content; matching resources to users needs and preferences; and more...
Added: 21 November 2008;
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- UN Ratifies Disability Treaty
by Cyndi Rowland. WebAIM Blog, April 17, 2008. "On April 3rd, the UN's Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) received the necessary 20 member state ratifications for the Treaty to move into implementation. The CRDP will go into effect May 3rd. You can access the CRDP at http://www.un.org/disabilities/. This comprehensive human rights treaty provides many fundamental rights to those with disabilities... accessible ICT is being taken very seriously..."
Added: 30 April 2008;
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- Web Accessibility Benefits and Issues: Melbourne
- Workshop, 18 June 2008. This half-day workshop run by Vision Australia is targeted at policy makers, business managers and corporate communications or web development professionals who want an overview of why web accessibility is important. No knowledge of HTML or other web technologies is needed. This workshop provides an introduction to Web Accessibility. The focus is on how web accessibility can benefit organisations and their website users. A range of simulations are used to demonstrate how people with disabilities use the web. The workshop introduces the World Wide Web Consortium's Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation. Course outline and registration details are available.
Added: 11 April 2008;
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- Web Accessibility Techniques: Melbourne
- Workshop 24 June 2008. This full-day workshop run by Vision Australia is targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers. A basic knowledge of HTML is helpful. This workshop provides a thorough overview of accessibility issues and the techniques used to address them. It covers the World Wide Web Consortium's Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation. Course outline and registration details are available.
Added: 11 April 2008;
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- Helping others understand web accessibility
- by Roger Johansson. 456 Berea Street, 5 February 2008. "... a few things to think about when you talk about accessibility with other people who work in the fields of web design and development..."
Added: 14 February 2008;
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- Access-eGov: Accessible eGovernment embracing the Semantic Web
- Source: Access-eGov. eGov Monitor, 29 January 2007. "Access-eGov aims at increasing the accessibility of public administration services for citizens and business users by supporting the interoperability among existing electronic and "traditional" government services. Access-eGov (Access to e-Government Services Employing Semantic Technologies) is an IST project partially funded under the IST Programme of FP6 (eGovernment research)..."
Added: 5 February 2007;
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- The future of web accessibility
- by Trenton Moss. Webcredible, October 2006. "It's been seven years since the W3C released the first version of the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 1.0). Since then, accessibility has slowly but surely turned up on the radar of web managers in most large organisations. The benefits of accessibility are pretty well known too - a quick Google search for web accessibility benefits1 returns over 37 million results! Because of this, more and more large profile websites have offered better and better accessibility as the years have gone by. There's still a long way to go but the progress over the past few years is highly visible and indeed positive..."
Added: 3 October 2006;
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- Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility
- W3C, 17 March 2006. "This document explains the key role that harmonization of standards plays in increasing the accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities. It examines how adoption of a consistent set of international technical standards, the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines for Web content, authoring tools, browsers and media players can drive more rapid progress on Web accessibility, and make the design and development of accessible Web sites more efficient..."
Added: 3 April 2006;
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