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How can AccessibilityOz help you during this time?

As social distancing becomes the new normal, more and more business, education and communication is heading online. Digital accessibility is more important now than ever. Newly remote employees and employers are only now noticing the accessibility problems and obstacles on their websites and applications. Individuals are taking advantage of apps and sites for communication that

The Importance of Captioning

Why captions? Whenever I mention at conferences or meetups that accessible video for blind watchers should have audio descriptions, I am asked a lot of questions: How precise should the audio descriptions be? What should be omitted? Should colors be mentioned (yes, they should)? What video players play audio descriptions? Et cetera. In other words,

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The Accessibility Switchboard has produced a guide in response to the global coronavirus pandemic: "Accessibility a… https://t.co/LjLpC2j8iY - 4 days ago

RT @ATIAorg: Our new COVID-19 Live Course Series provides resources and tools to help you adjust to the times we are in. These courses are… - 4 days ago

RT @disabilityscoop: The Trump administration is warning states and health care providers not to discriminate against people with #disabili… - 7 days ago

RT @quantumrlv: If you are using ZoomText, JAWS or Fusion at work and need these to work from home, please contact us to arrange a FREE 90… - 7 days ago

What are your accessibility questions? We have the answers! https://t.co/Fa51RrkZXc #accessibility #a11y - 2 weeks ago

RT @FreedomSci: 2 of 2) Outside of US/Canada: We are working with our international distributors to provide home solutions for our customer… - 2 weeks ago

Training

Thank you for opening my eyes and helping me to understand the importance of accessibility.

Our accessibility training and seminars are designed to suit you
— web content authors, web developers and web managers.

Take the complexity out of WCAG2. Practical hands-on exercises. In-depth training manuals.

About us

AccessibilityOz is an accessibility consultancy based in Australia and the United States. Gian Wild, the founder and Director, has worked on the accessibility of various web sites since 1998 and spent six years with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group contributing to WCAG2. AccessibilityOz offers a range of accessibility services and products to organisations and Government departments around the world. We have completed hundreds of audits and run training sessions and seminars over the last ten years for clients including United Nations, National Science Foundation, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Bureau of Meteorology and McDonald’s.