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Newsletter 28 October 2024

Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 28 October 2024. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” 20 November Introduction to Standard Accessibility Reporting (SAR) – 22 November OZeWAI Ask the Professionals – topics and recordings From the OZeWAI Website Become an OZeWAI Member Industry News Australian Internet Governance Forum Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR) A case study on MCEC’s Changing […]

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Newsletter 19 September 2024

Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 19 September 2024. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” 27 September, 18 October and 20 November OZeWAI Ask the Professionals – topics and recordings From the OZeWAI Website Renew or become an OZeWAI Member Industry News FSO Discussion Paper update More Accessibility Books International Day of Sign Languages – 23 September 2024

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Newsletter 13 August 2024

Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 13 August 2024. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” 16 August, 27 September and 18 October OZeWAI Ask the Professionals – topics and recordings From the OZeWAI Website Renew or become an OZeWAI Member Industry News FSO Discussion Paper workshop Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements Industry Events ResearchOps Community Calls AITCAP 2024

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Newsletter 19 July 2024

Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 19 July 2024. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” 26 July, 16 August and 27 September OZeWAI Ask the Professionals – topics and recordings From the OZeWAI Website OZeWAI website and Product Accessibility List (PAL) Renew or become an OZeWAI Member Industry News Accessibility Policy follow up workshops Collaboration Tools Accessibility User

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5 principles to guide your inclusive research practice

This article was written by OZeWAI member Irith Williams and was originally published on Medium for the ResearchOps.Community. It’s based on the Inclusive Research Workshops presentation delivered by Irith and Bri at the 2024 Web Directions Summit. It includes content that has been summarised from the workshops. You can also access the slides used in

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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2024: On-Demand Webinars and Videos

This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) gets bigger and bigger every year. When Los Angeles-based web developer Joe Devon blogged back in 2011 about how Accessibility know-how needs to go mainstream with developers, he was contacted by Canadian accessibility

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Newsletter 15 May 2024

Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 15 May 2024. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” 4 June and 26 July Digital accessibility skills gap survey and research OZeWAI website and Product Accessibility List (PAL) Become an OZeWAI Member Industry News Inclusive Research workshops Inclusive Design 24 – call for presentations WordPress Accessibility Day 2024 – call for speakers

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Newsletter 17 April 2024

Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 17 April 2024. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” 18 April and 7 May Digital accessibility skills gap survey and research Become an OZeWAI Member OZeWAI Events Survey Industry News Australian Human Rights Commission – public comment on WWW Advisory Note Dubbo Council wants feedback on an accessibility overlay Accessing Higher Ground

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AI makes pictures accessible to screen reader users

By OZeWAI member Andrew Downie, Accessibility Consultant. Introduction Amidst all the discussion and controversy over so-called AI (artificial intelligence) this is a very positive story. We all know (he wrote optimistically) that images should be accompanied by meaningful alternative text. Those of us who use screen readers know that many images lack text descriptions or,

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