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Registrations still open! AccessibilityOz, in partnership with Reading Room and BrowseAloud are pleased to bring you our free Digital Conversations breakfast. Australian Government legislation requires websites to meet a set of WCAG 2.0 standards on delivering accessible website by the end of 2013. Most of you are aware of the requirements, but how does this

Accessibility Week is an established conference and training event that has successfully run across Australia. Accessibility Week 2013 locations and dates are: Melbourne – Monday 22nd to Friday 26th July (location to be advised) Canberra – Monday 12th to Friday 16th August at the National Library The week consists of a one day conference followed by three streams of training for

Sharon Litchfield is the manager of our Brisbane office. Here we ask her ten questions. How long have you been working at AccessibilityOz? Almost 12 months – I started in April 2012. Where were you before joining AccessibilityOz? I was a web-developer for the Queensland Government for 11 years. What started you in the accessibility

The Guardian recently released an article about Government transparency and the need to publish documents in formats other than PDF. Government data PDF enthusiasts will be ‘dealt with’, says Maude and most government departments breaching the UK’s own transparency rules. Read more about Open Government and the use of PDFs.  

Hot on the heels of our Canberra Accessibility Week, AccessibilityOz is pleased to announce we are opening offices in both Canberra and Brisbane. Sharon Litchfield will be heading up the Brisbane office, and Gian Wild will be moving to Canberra to run the Canberra office. If you’d like to visit us – or for us

That’s what Department of Primary Industries found when they removed the PDFs from their site. Initially deciding to remove the PDFs for accessibility reasons, their business case made itself when HTML version of a PDF attracted 160 visitors to every one person that had previously opened the PDF file. For more information read Briarbird’s interview

We are running a Melbourne Accessibility Week and a Canberra Accessibility Week. Are you aware that the Victorian and federal Government has set a December 2012 deadline for all Government websites to be Level A WCAG2 compliant? Register now for Melbourne Accessibility Week! If you would like to see Accessibility Week at another location, register

Last Tuesday we had an official launch party at Feddish in Federation Square. It was great to socialise with staff and clients in a relaxed setting. We had over forty clients attend the three hour launch. Katherine, our Events Director, put in an enormous amount of effort to have the place looking wonderful. We had

Gian Wild will be speaking on PDFs and accessibility at Accessing Higher Ground in Boulder, Colorado, USA this Friday. Accessing Higher Ground is an accessible media, web and technology conference focussed on tertiary education. Gian Wild spent five years working with Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and as part of her work reviewed the accessibility

My second Sitepoint.com article has been published on Information and Relationships. Would love to hear your comments!