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I have attended several meetings recently where clients have stated that they need their sites to comply with WCAG 2.0 - “as this is now the current guideline”. For Australian websites, this is NOT correct. At present, all Australian websites must meet WCAG 1.0 guidelines. As the Australian Human Rights Commission website states:
We are continuing […]

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has published the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 as a Proposed Recommendation, and published updated Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0, Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and How to Meet WCAG 2.0. WCAG defines how to make Web sites, Web applications, and other Web content accessible to people […]

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 […]

Swinburne University of Technology’s e-Therapy Unit co-directors Dr Britt Klein and Dr David Austin have developed “internet to deliver therapy”:

Through graphics, animation, audio and video, a patient is guided through an internet-based psychological treatment. He or she is given the option to choose a male or female online presenter, to access video materials by former […]

Roger Hudson has written a detailed article called Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0. The article provides practical advice about the preparation of accessible HTML forms.
More importantly, it compares the WCAG 1.0 accessibility requirements relating to forms with those contained in WCAG 2.0.
There are also a selection of movies where Andrew Downie demonstrate screen readers in […]

Oz-IA2008 will be held on 20/21 September. Oz-IA is the premier Australian event on Information Architecture for the web. Two incredible days of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Australia and beyond.
I’ll be running a half-day workshop as part of the conference:
Styling WCAG 2.0 accessible forms with CSS
Forms are possibly the hardest […]

Steve Faulkner, from the Paciello Group, has been doing some Accessibility testing of the new Google browser, Chrome. While it is important to remember that the browser is still in beta, and it has a lot of great features, it is not looking good on the accessibility front at this point:
This release of Google Chrome […]

The Web today is very different to what it was in 1994, when the World Wide Web Consortium was established. Roger Hudson’s article - The Evolving Web - looks back at the early history of the Web and uses Pace Layering theory to consider some recent developments and the role of the W3C in the […]

A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley.
Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
Day 1: Planning and designing the user experience […]

Roger Hudson and I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Judith who has cerebral palsy. In the video below, Judith talks about her passion - Second Life. This video was used in a presentation at OZeWAI on Web 2.0 and accessibility.