This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Following on from my earlier blog post on Digital Accessibility Blogs and Newsletters, I was asked if I could recommend any good books and podcasts on digital accessibility. This post will focus on books. Books?! Are you kidding? […]
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This is the conference that almost 20 years ago inspired me to throw myself wholeheartedly into the web tech industry as a freelance web designer / front end developer. Web Directions conferences have been a mainstay of my professional development ever since, and these days I’m very grateful for that. From the start, these conferences
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By OZeWAI member Andrew Downie, Accessibility Consultant. And so it came to pass In a recent OZeWAI Committee meeting I related a fix for a problem I was having when trying to read some Google Docs with a screen reader. Before I knew it, it was unanimously agreed (no veto permitted) that an article was
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Let me start this post by making clear this is a personal list. It’s part of my job at TPGi to keep up with what’s happening in the digital accessibility industry and I’ve built up a list of
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. When it comes to the web, we all have to deal with forms. When you subscribe to an email newsletter – that’s a form. When you apply for a credit card online – that’s a form. When you
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Amanda Mace for the AbleDocs blog. Every year around September the W3C’s Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meetings (TPAC) take place somewhere around the globe. I’ve been lucky enough in my role as Advisory Committee representative for AbleDocs to attend TPAC several times including this year in Seville,
This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Much has been written in recent years about accessibility overlays, third party technologies that aim to make websites more accessible without the website owner having to mess about with their underlying code. The idea of using technology to
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The latest OZeWAI newsletter is out now and has some great information on upcoming events and conferences, including discounts for subscribers and members to Web Directions Summit on 26 & 27 October. Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 20 September 2023. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” – tonight! First “Ask The Professionals” Video Online OZeWAI Highlighting our Partners Panel Partnership
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I’m very excited about going to the Web Directions Summit conference this year. Web Directions and I go way back. Back even to before Web Directions was Web Directions. I’d been dabbling in this new fangled World Wide Web since the mid 90s. At the time, I was working at the Disability Information & Referral
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By OZeWAI member Andrew Downie, Accessibility Consultant. Introduction Writing equations that both look as they should and are fully accessible can be a messy business. MathML is a laudable solution in terms of the end result in HTML pages. However, writing MathML directly is a tedious process and accessible tools to automate the process are
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