Seminars

Gian Wild offers four types of one hour seminars:

• Accessibility basics
• PDFs and accessibility
• Updates to the DDA: Web Advisory Notes
• Introducing the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy

The Accessibility Basics seminar addresses the issues of: accessibility compliance; why accessibility is important, and how to maintain and test for compliance. It also provides information on Australia’s accessibility requirements and the current status of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Version 2.0. To facilitate understanding and increase compliance, the W3C accessibility ratings are discussed, as well as how to determine what level the site should aim (for example, depending on your audience).

The PDFs and accessibility seminar addresses the current and future requirements for compliance with WCAG2 and the differences between WCAG1 and WCAG2 and how to prepare staff for the new guidelines. With the advent of WCAG2, it becomes the decision of policy-makers such as AGIMO and the Australian Human Rights Commission (formerly HREOC) as to whether PDFs are deemed an ‘accessibility supported’ and whether they can be on a site without an accessible alternative.

The Updates to the DDA: Web Advisory Notes seminar discusses the major changes between the current version of the Web Advisory Notes (endorsing WCAG2) and the previous version. Many things have changed and their impact on Government and/or non-Government departments will be discussed. For an overview of the major changes to the Web Advisory Notes see: Australian Human Rights Commission updates their Web Advisory Notes.

The Introducing the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy seminar discusses the recently released transition strategy by the Australian Government Information Management Office. A specific timeline has been recommended in the transition strategy and this seminar talks about what is required and when. For an overview of this strategy see: AGIMO releases the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy.

To enquire about a seminar, please use the contact form.

Training

Gian Wild offers two types of accessibility training:

• Accessibility (WCAG2) training for developers
• Writing accessible content

Accessibility (WCAG2) training for developers

Training would include issues such as:

• Use of style sheets
• Proper coding of data tables using TH ID and TD HEADERS
• Proper coding of fields using LABEL FOR and ID
• Proper layout of fields and field labels
• Lightboxes (if applicable)
• Image galleries (if applicable)
• Twitter (if applicable)
• Videos (if applicable)
• YouTube (if applicable)

This training session is a one day programme and would be conducted on-site at the client’s premises.

Writing accessible content

Training would include issues such as:

• Writing accurate ALT attributes
• Writing accurate link text
• Writing accurate headings
• Shortening sentences
• Writing text transcripts for video (if applicable)
• Writing alternative text for maps (if applicable)

This training session is a one day programme and would be conducted on-site at the client’s premises.

To enquire about a training session, please use the contact form.

For more information see some of the seminars and training Gian has conducted.