WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar
Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) is about to be released, introducing some changes in the recommendations for website accessibility. WIPA is presenting this afternoon seminar to help the web community understand WCAG 2.0 and prepare sites with improved accessibility.
Roger Hudson will provide an overview of WCAG 2.0 and the compliance process. He will describe the practical differences to WCAG 1.0 and the benefits to be gained by adopting WCAG 2.0. He will outline the move to technology neutrality and the introduction of the concept of “Accessibility Supported Technologies”.
Andrew Spaulding from Adobe will talk about the importance of making Flash accessible and how this is relatively easy to do.
Andrew Downie from the Centre for Learning Innovation within the NSW Department of Education and Training will demonstrate how to make accessible PDFs that can bring benefits to screen reader users. Andrew Downie will also demonstrate how screen reader users can access and use well made Flash and PDF material.
Canberra: Monday 10 November, 2008
Time: 1.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Location: Conference Room, National Library of Australia, Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT 2600
Sydney: Wednesday 12 November, 2008
Time: 1.00 pm – 5.00 pm
Location: Corinthian Room, SMC Conference Centre, 66 Goulburn Street, Sydney (Cnr Castlereagh)
Afternoon tea will be provided.
Cost
- $100
- $70 for WIPA Members
Places are limited. Register online at the addresses above!
Date: 21 October 2008
Author: Russ Weakley
Category: Accessibility, Events, HTML, News, Web, Web standards
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Regular mortals don’t have a chance of getting on those kind of things, unless they own a solid bag of money and a personal jet. Is there going to be some sort of a record so we can learn too?
@Ollie: Good to hear from you
I’ll speak to the organisers – if nothing else the presentations will be placed online (probably on the WIPA site – wipa.og.au). I’ll blog about them here when up.