This month, AccessibilityOz celebrates its 12th birthday! We’re just as busy as ever, and we’d love for you to join us at some of the conferences we’ll be attending over the next few weeks. Our CEO, Gian, will be speaking on the Mobile Site and Native App Accessibility Testing Guidelines at Midwest Drupal Camp and
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Find us at CSUN, WITS and Programmable Sydney!
March is busy for AccessibilityOz! Check out our upcoming webinar—plus, find us at CSUN, WITS MidAtlantic and Programmable Sydney! Introduction to Standard Accessibility Reporting Join us on Tuesday, 7 March at 10:00AM AEDT for a free webinar introducing Standard Accessibility Reporting, a new nonprofit member organisation with the goal to standardise accessibility scoring, with speaker
What’s the (accessibility) score? Free webinar on 7 March!
Together, we will introduce standardised accessibility scoring. AccessibilityOz is now a member of Standard Accessibility Reporting, Inc.! We are co-hosting a free webinar on Tuesday, March 7, 10:00am AEDT – Find out more, and RSVP to attend.
Happy holidays, and a look back at 2022
The team here at AccessibilityOz would like to wish you a very happy holiday season! We hope your 2023 proves to be more accessible than your 2022 — that being said, we had some great accessibility moments and achievements this past year! We’re revisiting a few of our favorites: Back in the U.S. …for the
December and January Online Workshop: Testing Mobile Sites and Native Apps for Accessibility
Join us for a half-day, virtual Mobile Site and Native App Accessibility Testing Workshop on Thursday, 15 December from 12:30PM to 4:30PM AEST (in Australia) or Thursday, January 12th from 12:30PM to 4:30PM Eastern Time (in the US). AccessibilityOz CEO and digital accessibility expert Gian Wild will teach participants about the unique accessibility issues on
The five stages of grief, AKA accepting accessibility
Recently I spoke on a panel at the M-Enabling Summit about Accessibility in SaaS (Software as a Service). This is basically what I do, all day, every day, and I’ve been doing it for many years (so many years that it’s starting to get embarrassing—unless I started in accessibility when I was five years old!).
Virtual workshop in October in the US: Testing Mobile Sites and Native Apps for Accessibility
Join us for a half-day, virtual Mobile Site and Native App Accessibility Testing Workshop on Thursday, November 3rd from 12:30PM to 4:30PM Eastern Time (in the US). AccessibilityOz CEO and digital accessibility expert Gian Wild will teach participants about the unique accessibility issues on mobile sites and mobile apps, including hover traps, VoiceOver swipe traps
Check out these virtual accessibility events!
What’s new on AccessibilityOz.com: Did you catch the premiere episode of our webinar series Accessibility Voices? AccessibilityOz CEO Gian Wild sits down (virtually) with Sheri Bryne-Haber, Accessibility Architect at VMware and accomplished disability advocate. Keep an eye out for upcoming episodes! New on the blog: But what does she look like? A commentary on subpar
But what does she look like? A commentary on subpar audio descriptions
With more and more movies having audio descriptions, I’m watching more and more. And I’m… not satisfied. What are audio descriptions? A short explanation for readers who are not familiar with a term “audio description”: audio description is a narration that provides information about visual elements so that the element can be perceived by a
Introducing a new webinar series: Accessibility Voices
In our newest upcoming webinar series, Accessibility Voices, our CEO Gian Wild sits down (virtually) with some of the most knowledgeable and influential specialists in the digital accessibility field. In these one-on-one interviews, we’ll get to know how these experts started their unique journeys into accessibility, and where they think the field is headed now.