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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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. It’s based on the first part of a presentation delivered by the author and Hans Hillen at CSUN 2024 Conference. It includes content that was not used in the conference presentation due to time constraints. You can also
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Before his untimely passing in December, my TPGi colleague Dan O’Mahony had been working on a KnowledgeBase article about how to make mathematical equations in web content accessible to assistive technology. In his memory, we decided to honor
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. It has been edited to emphasise events that take place in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region, or online, plus some events located elsewhere, all of which may be of interest to Australian digital accessibility professionals. TPGi maintains a calendar
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. I was recently asked to comment on the Australian Government Style Manual’s advice on using currency symbols. Non-Australian currency symbols may be inaccessible to people who access content using screen readers. Screen readers may be unable to interpret
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This article was written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman and was originally published on the TPGi website. Data visualization is a term applied to images that are used to make complex data easier to understand by displaying them visually. Examples commonly encountered in web content include pie charts, line charts, column graphs, bar graphs, and
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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. 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 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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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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