Office for Disability—Accessibility factsheets

http://www.officefordisability.vic.gov.au/research_and_resources.htm#websites
Gian Wild developed and wrote a series of factsheets for the Office for Disability. These covered:

• WCAG2
• What about Web 2.0 technologies?
• Flash
• JavaScript
• PDF
• Video
• Web Manager’s Checklist
• Web Developer’s Checklist
• Resources

These factsheets were distributed to over a thousand Victorian Government web staff.

Department of Justice

Gian Wild developed documents on the accessibility of PDFs and videos and incorporated them into the current training materials. Step-by-step instructions were provided on creating tagged PDFs, captioning and audio describing video.

Department of Education & Training (DE&T)

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/devreskit/webdev
Gian Wild was contracted by the Department of Education and Training to review the Web Development Toolkit. The tasks included writing description guidelines and checklists for mobile phones, Java, JavaScript, and Flash, captioning, and audio. Gian worked closely with the Online Services Unit to update the toolkit and include references to accessibility, as well as other Whole of Victorian Government Web Standards. She was responsible for writing a Recommendations document on how the Online Services Unit could improve the uptake of accessibility and other requirements by areas of DE&T; these included new procedures, raising awareness and providing specialised testing services.

Microsoft

Gian Wild developed and ran a one day accessible development training session for Microsoft developers and testers. The course covered why accessibility is important, as well as identifying detailed steps on how to comply with every Level A checkpoint of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Ticketmaster7

Gian Wild developed and ran a one day accessible development training session for Ticketmaster7 developers; this was followed by a second (half day) course on specific fixes to accessibility errors found in the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games ticketing application. The initial course covered why accessibility is important, as well as detailed steps on how to comply with every Level A checkpoint for the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The second course covered specific areas of non-compliance, including the labelling of fields, the indicating of mandatory fields, and the provision of detailed instructions. Specific fixes were developed in response to an audit of the ticketing application and testing by a vision impaired person.