http://www.gianwild.com Practical accessibility Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:24:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For more information see the eGovernment Accessibility Toolkit on Twitter and accessibility. http://www.gianwild.com/2010/02/01/twitter-and-accessibility/ For more information see the eGovernment Toolkit on Facebook and accessibility. http://www.gianwild.com/2010/02/01/facebook-and-accessibility/ I ran a short presentation on WCAG2 on the 17th December in Brisbane for the Computer Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG). This was the same presentation that I ran for Web Directions South 2009 in Sydney a few months ago. For more information see the CHISIG Events website or listen ... http://www.gianwild.com/2009/12/16/accessibility-presentation-wcag2/ I've just finished running a short presentation on the accessibility of social networking tools for the Website Redesign conference in Melbourne, 7- 8th December. I mentioned my work on the eGovernment Accessibility Toolkit, and the Web Manager's checklist and Web Developer's checklist. Introduction to accessibility Wheelies in Second Life Videos Live in Victoria transcripts Koorie ... http://www.gianwild.com/2009/12/07/website-redesign-conference/ I've just run a short workshop at the Making Links conference in 2009. I went through the Office for Disability factsheet for Web Managers; specifically how to test a web site for accessibility compliance. The document, Web Manager's Checklist, is one of a series of factsheets that I developed for ... http://www.gianwild.com/2009/11/16/making-links-conference/ The Australian Government is seeking input to inform its policy about the use of the Portable Document Format (PDF) for the provision of government information online. The Australian Human Rights Commission, responsible for administering the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (DDA) currently states on their DDA Advisory Notes: The Commission's view is that ... http://www.gianwild.com/2009/10/09/add-your-comments-to-the-agimo-pdf-enquiry/ Plone - a Content Management System - is currently asking for people to vote for their desired improvements. At the moment, "Improve accessibility" is at the number two spot. Help it to become a top priority by voting now. Vote for Plone accessibility. http://www.gianwild.com/2009/07/07/vote-for-accessibility/ I have just finished testing both the Australian and New Zealand web sites for accessibility. The Australian client is the NSW Disability Discrimination Legal Centre Inc., which assists people with disabilities with their legal rights. The New Zealand client is Rainbow Youth, which assists queer youth and their families in ... http://www.gianwild.com/2009/05/13/fullcodepress-results/ On Friday I ran a seminar on "Accessibility and new technologies" for Victoria Online. Around 120 Victorian Government web staff attended. It was also the launch of the Office for Disability Factsheets, which I have spent several months writing. There are eight accessibility factsheets: PDFs Video Flash JavaScript Web 2.0 technologies What about WCAG2? Web Manager's checklist Web ... http://www.gianwild.com/2009/05/10/victoria-online-seminar/ I am very pleased to report that I am the accessibility judge for the Full Code Press competition. I was lucky enough to be a judge in the previous competition and some of you may remember me as the haiku twitterer. I'm not sure if I'll be doing that again ... http://www.gianwild.com/2009/05/06/full-code-press/