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

OZeWAI News, Technical articles / 22 May 2024

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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Websites Are Not Books

Technical articles / 8 May 2024

Why do we keep acting as if a website is a book? We speak of web “pages”, we “bookmark” websites, we use software to “browse” websites – we seem determined to pretend that the web is some kind of bookshop. It’s not, and that language doesn’t help. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against

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The Call for Speakers for WordPress Accessibility Day 2024 is Open!

Technical articles / 24 April 2024

This year, I’ve joined the organising committee for WordPress Accessibility Day as an Asia-Pacific liaison. The idea of the event is to host 24 online talks related to WordPress and accessibility in a 24 hour period: one every hour. That means some of them will be in the middle of the night for the US

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AI makes pictures accessible to screen reader users

OZeWAI News, Technical articles / 17 April 2024

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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Reflections on CSUN 2024

Conferences, Learning and development / 3 April 2024

A couple of weeks ago, I attended my first CSUN – the California State University Northridge Assistive Technology Conference, generally acknowledged to be THE major live conference in the world focusing on disability and accessibility. It certainly lived up to its reputation, with 600 presenters giving 470 talks in 26 time slots over four days

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What AI Can Do For (and To) Existing Web Accessibility Tools

Technical articles / 2 April 2024

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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OZeWAI and FSO digital accessibility skills gap research

OZeWAI News / 7 March 2024

OZeWAI and FSO digital accessibility skills gap research Write a case study OZeWAI is working with the Future Skills Organisation to gather case studies to include in their next iteration of the Digital Capability Workforce Plan. Please consider developing a case study from one of three perspectives: An organisation wanting to hire experienced digital accessibility

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