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A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has released its Accessibility Action Plan 2026–2029, with digital accessibility included as one of its five key areas ...

Laetitia Thompson considers the implications of the update for Australia ...

Ross Mullen from CANAXESS explains why when you have dozens of websites to test, the smartest accessibility strategy may be to test less and learn more ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

NV Access announces that version 2026.2 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available ...

Russ Weakley explains the difference between two key attributes ...

New laws making significant changes to the NDIS start taking effect today, Thursday 27 August 2026 ...

Google's latest speech-to-text model is designed for precise and intelligent real-time transcription ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 15 October 2026 – WCAG Success Criteria and Conformance. Panelists Eric Eggert (he/him) Eric has worked on, in, and with Web Accessibility since 2008. Between 2013 and 2020, he worked with W3C/WAI on educational material around accessibility. He also worked with Knowbility on providing ...

OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 23 September 2026 – Accessibility careers, recruitment and mentoring. Panelists Amanda Mace (she/her) Amanda is a Subject Matter Expert in Digital Accessibility with more than 10 years of experience in the industry. She manages the Australasia office for GrackleDocs while growing and promoting the ...

Nathan Ortiz writes about what to do when the call to ship something inaccessible sits above your pay grade ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

People with Disability Australia (PWDA), the national cross-disability rights and advocacy organisation, has condemned the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee’s single recommendation that the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026 proceed ...

For over two decades, New Zealand’s accessibility standards for the public sector have governed one thing: web content. The draft Digital Accessibility Standard (DAS) proposes to change that, replacing the current Web Accessibility Standard ...

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group has published ARIA in HTML as an updated W3C Recommendation ...

The Australian Government is developing new aviation disability standards to improve accessibility across airlines and airports. Proposed changes include clearer accessible information, more accessible booking experiences, better wayfinding and improved passenger assistance ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Laetitia Thompson, Digital Access, Training and Inclusion Coordinator at Centre for Accessibility Australia, recently joined Narelle Wright on The Digital Access Show to chat about accessible social media ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Automation can tell you what’s broken. Humans tell you why it matters ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0 is published as a W3C Group Note ...

Laetitia Thompson answers a question from a Centre For Accessibility Australia newsletter reader ...

As sighted researchers, Jodie and Aasha have undertaken extensive research in partnership with braille readers and writers across Australia ...

Published as a W3C Group Note 23 July 2026 ...

Gerry Neustatl explains how AccessUX DesignLint helps teams make accessibility intent visible in Figma, reduce handover guesswork, and catch issues earlier in the design workflow ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Three newsletter compilers with a focus on digital accessibility news discuss their work ...

Very useful code example and visual demonstration for a progress meter ...

Intopia joined Figma at The Outlook Festival to share an accessibility skill for Figma Make ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 14 August 2026 – Accessible design, tools and processes. Panelists Claire Webber (she/her) Claire is a digital accessibility consultant at Intopia, supporting organisations with accessibility and inclusive design. She loves to share her passion for design, accessibility and inclusion, setting teams up with the ...

Ayesha Semfel makes a simple case: the content screen reader users hear is still real content, and it deserves the same care as everything else on the page ...

This exclusive tour is led on the ground by Amanda Mace, Vice President of Australasia at GrackleDocs, W3C Australian Chapter Manager, and Co-Chair of OZEWAI ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Andrew Downie bought a random orbital sander, and tried to register his purchase ...

July is Disability Pride Month, and Laetitia Thompson explains how important digital accessibility is ...

Gerry Neustatl looks at what government buyers expect in 2026 ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Jacinta Gregory and Rusty Benson unpack the results in a live webinar on 8 July ...

Ross Mullen explains what goes into a good accessibility statement for your team ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Caleigh Clements explains why true alt text excellence requires a human touch ...

Nathan Ortiz walks through what happens when data goes missing and developers don’t plan for it ...

Morgan explains how to answer "Is my website accessible? And why does that matter?" ...

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Ross Mullen dives into one of the most complex ARIA controls ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Article by Dom Loulie, Project Coordinator for Inclusive Design, Consulting and Training for AbilityWorks ...

John Allsopp from Web Directions on welcoming AI agents to his conferences ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

VisAbility was proud to be part of the 2026 Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities Conference ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John busts the myth that NDIS changes are focused on eliminating fraud ...

Ask The Professionals. Ricky Onsman (Vispero) moderates a panel featuring Eric Bailey (GitHub), Julie Grundy (Intopia), and Laurence Lewis (Telstra) ...

OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 30 June 2026 – Accessibility news. Panelists David A. Kennedy (he/him) David is a designer, specializing in accessibility and design leadership. Currently, he works as a government contractor in the United States, helping multiple agencies improve digital services for citizens. He curates the popular ...

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Ross Mullen from CANAXESS on how Google's annual showcase revealed some interesting accessibility developments ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Part II of a two-part series in which Ricky Onsman explores the impact of artifical intelligence on digital accessibility ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Part I of a two-part series in which Ricky Onsman explores the impact of artifical intelligence on digital accessibility ...

Gerry Neustatl explores category of debt that grows faster, costs more, and carries far greater risk than design debt: accessibility debt ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

AbilityWorks' story of how they discovered that their brand wasn’t as accessible as they believed ...

The Abra FREE kick-off session was held on 16 April 2026. For those who registered, watch your email for a link to the recording.  If you missed the session, please complete the Abra certification form to register your interest in OZeWAI hosting another session. Abra Mobile Accessibility Testing Online Deep-Dive / In-Person Workshop OZeWAI and ...

Peter Moricz considers whether animal charities are quietly excluding their most generous supporters. Older Australians give more than any other group, yet the websites built to move them are often the hardest for them to use ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Building truly inclusive communities starts with making our events accessible to everyone. Accessibility is not just about following rules; it is about ensuring everyone can participate with dignity. By planning ahead, we can remove barriers and create a better experience for all ...

Rosie Putland comments on the proposed cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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In Episode 18 of the State of Accessibility Podcast, David Sloan and Ricky Onsman explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping digital accessibility ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Ross Mullen from CANAXESS explains how Telstra's use of aria-expanded in an accordion communicates its state to a screen reader ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman was on a webinar panel talking about AI and accessibility ...

Ricky Onsman hosted the online March Accessibility Book Club meeting with the authors of Accessible Communications ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

OZeWAI announces a new partnership with Abra, a leader in mobile application accessibility based in the Netherlands ...

Ask The Professionals. Amanda Mace (GrackleDocs) moderates a panel featuring Jack McElaney (Accessibility in the News), David Kennedy (Accessibility Weekly), and Ricky Onsman (Weekly Reading List) ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Ross Mullen from CANAXESS looks at the implications of ACT Government Web Accessibility Policy continuing to being set to WCAG 2.1 AA ...

Centre for Accessibility Australia (CFA Australia) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tamara Findlay and Ryan Malonda to its Board ...

Ross Mullen from CANAXESS unpacks the Australian Government’s Digital Inclusion Standard, what it requires, and why the real test will be turning broad principles into practical accessibility outcomes ...

This rant was inspired by an email from Adobe asking me to complete a survey. “Here’s my chance to tell them about issues I have with Acrobat”, I thought. Or not ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

In nursery rhymes and fables the fox is usually the villain. In this case, though, the fox is the hero. We are discussing here Firefox's really nice access to PDF files for screen reader users ...

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Ask The Professionals. Amanda Mace (GrackleDocs) moderates a panel featuring Greg Alchin (Service NSW), Andrew Drummond (maryland.gov), and Ben Pintos-Oliver (Telstra) ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Aparna Pasi on the history of accessibility in Australia, Recent accessibility updates in Australia, Australia’s update to WCAG 2.2 Level AA, New guidelines for digital products and services, The Digital Experience Policy, and What your business needs to do, and why ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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There are many reasons, especially with the advent of social media, why PDFs are not a suitable solution for releasing content. It is important, as an organisation, to support your end users by providing them content that they can easily access and read. If you are providing content via PDF, ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

It is still unclear as to whether PDFs can be made accessible; however, they do not contain the accessibility features inherent in traditional HTML. In addition to this, there are many times that PDFs are used when they should instead be web pages. Therefore, before including PDFs on your web ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Accessible Community and OZeWAI are proud to announce a new strategic partnership to deliver the Mutua11y Mentoring Program to support and grow the next generation of Australian digital accessibility experts ...

Ask The Professionals. Jaunita Flessas moderates a panel featuring Wilco Fiers (Deque), Andrew Downie (University of Technology, Sydney), and Ricky Onsman (Vispero) ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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Ricky Onsman gets to wade through a lot predictions for the coming year. Having read so many of these, he decided to cobble together his own set of 10 predictions ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

The abbreviation a11y is a numeronym. There are eleven letters between the initial a and final y of accessibility, so its numeronym is a11y. Numeronyms are written conventions not intended to be verbalised in their abbreviated form ...

OZeWAI has had another busy year, with online events and in-person partnerships with conferences, as well as progress in our strategic governance and accessibility advocacy and projects. We’re pleased to share the highlights of 2025 ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Ricky Onsman: On 29 October 2025, I gave my first ever presentation at A11y Camp in Melbourne. This was a watershed moment for me, because I'd never had a talk proposal accepted before ...

Over the two days, Charissa Ramirez, Andrew Downie, Matthew Guyan, and Kim Neville welcomed conference participants who visited the OZeWAI accessibility experience lab/exhibitors stand ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Ask the Professional. Russ Weakley (Intopia) moderates a panel featuring Andrew Downie (University of Technology, Sydney), Sara Soueidan (Freelance Web Developer), and Rafal Charlampowicz (AccessibilityOz) ...

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A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Ask the Professionals. Amanda Mace (OZeWAI) moderates a panel featuring Vithya Vijayakumare (Visability), Matthew Putland (NDIA), and Heather Jakubczyk (GrackleDocs) ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Andrew Normand: This is a test to see how screen readers treat time with a colon (hh:mm) versus a period (hh.mm) ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

UX Australia makes a post-Covid comeback after five years with the assistance of the best conference organisers in the country Web Directions ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

On 17 June, OZeWAI Co-Chairs Amanda Mace and Bri Norton and Committee Member Ricky Onsman participated in a WordPress Accessibility Meetup ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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Ask the Professionals. Gian Wild (AccessibilityOz) moderates a panel featuring Paul van Workum (Abra), Genevieve Lake (Telstra), Ricky Onsman (TPGi), and Rafal Charlampowicz (AccessibilityOz) ...

Ricky Onsman: They sound similar, they share many objectives, and they';re sometimes used interchangeably, but they're underpinned by different philosophies, based on distinct principles, and achieved in different ways ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Gian Wild: Unfortunately, due to their inherently visual nature, when CAPTCHAs were initially developed they were completely inaccessible to people who used screen readers, and sometimes to people with low vision and cognitive disabilities ...

Is the use of the em dash making our posts look like they were generated by A.I.? How do screen readers convey em dashes? Ricky Onsman investigates and reprots ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Gian Wild: Mental health disabilities (sometimes called “psychosocial disabilities”) are often overlooked when people think about accessibility. In fact, WCAG2 does not reference the needs of people with mental health disabilities at all ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Ask the Professionals. OZeWAI Co-Chair Bri Norton (Ability Works) moderates a panel featuring Jaunita Flessas (Empower Accessibility), Zoë Haughton (Commonwealth Bank), and Jun Pataleta (Moodle) ...

Gian Wild: People with cognitive, language and learning disabilities comprise the largest group of those with disabilities accessing the web—approximately 15 to 20% of the population ...

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Ask the Professionals. Joint webinar between ADCET and OZeWAI. OZeWAI Committee member Ricky Onsman moderates a panel featuring Andrew Downie (University of Technology Sydney), Amelia Dowe (University of Tasmania), Darren Britten (ADCET), and Kim Neville (Australian National University) ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Ask the Professionals. OZeWAI Committee member Ricky Onsman moderates a panel featuring representatives of five Australian meetups that focus on digital accessibility and inclusion: Adem Cifcioglu (Melbourne), Amanda Mace (Perth), Brigitta Norton (Canberra), Charissa Ramirez (Sydney) and Rosie Putland (Hobart) ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Andrew Downie: In January 2023 I wrote about using the details element to augment alt text on images. I was not aware at the time of another very useful string to the detail's bow. Following is a brief example and discussion ...

We’re proud to support the Centre for Accessibility Australia as a Community sponsor in announcing the opening of nominations for the 2025 Australian Access Awards, taking place this November ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

Ask the Professionals. OZeWAI Committee member Ricky Onsman (TPGi) moderates a panel featuring Amber Hinds (Equalize Digital), Mike Gifford (CivicActions) and Ricky Blacker (WPEngine) ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

A weekly roundup of summaries and links to global news, articles, and blog posts of interest to digital accessibility professionals ...

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Andrew Downie: This item was inspired by Florian Schroiff's article, How to Use ARIA Alert Effectively. Florian makes some good points about ensuring screen reader users do not miss out on important information. His examples are also very effective. I do have one issue though ...

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OZeWAI has had another busy year, with online events and in-person partnerships with conferences, as well as progress in our strategic governance and accessibility advocacy and projects. We’re pleased to share the highlights of 2024 ...

There seems to be a widespread belief that skip links are only useful to screen reader users and the link is therefore not displayed on the screen. Andrew Downie argues for a different approach ...

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Ricky Onsman: Subtitled "How Inclusion Shapes Design", Mismatch (MIT Press, 2018) is an enlightening guide to what inclusive design is and its benefits to both designers and users of the digital world ...

Jeff Mills: The aim of this article is to explore the global efforts being made to raise digital accessibility awareness, looking at initiatives from international organizations, regional governments, and private companies, as well as global campaigns ...

Ricky Onsman: interpreting for deaf people is not all about precise word-for-word translation, it’s also about understanding conceptual expression and being able to put that into English – or vice versa, for that matter ...

Ricky Onsman: This is the second part of a two-part blog post adapted from a presentation I gave to the WordPress Accessibility Meetup based on some learning I acquired while I was working on training modules on PDF accessibility ...

Ricky Onsman: This is the first part of a two-part blog post adapted from a presentation I gave to the WordPress Accessibility Meetup based on some learning I acquired while I was working on training modules on PDF accessibility ...

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Bri Norton: OZeWAI co-hosted a fully accessible workshop with the Future Skills Organisation (FSO), which was held to gather evidence for the FSO’s 'Bridging the Digital Divide: Digital Accessibility and Inclusion' discussion paper ...

Ricky Onsman: It's been a busy few weeks for me. What was a bit different was that I somehow found myself participating in four different online events - in four different roles ...

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Ricky Onsman: Back in November last year, I wrote a blog post listing 20 books on digital accessibility published between 2012 and 2023. Here are 19 more books on digital accessibility, published between 2019 and 2024 ...

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Ricky Onsman: I am an unabashed fan of RSS. If you're not sure what this, or have never heard of it, let me explain ...

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Ricky Onsman: PDF reading and editing applications do provide a Reflow function, which can change the content display to a single column that remains within the viewport when the content size is increased. There are exceptions to what content can be reflowed with PDF Reflow ...

This article was written by OZeWAI member Irith Williams and was originally published on Medium for the ResearchOps.Community ...

Ricky Onsman: In this article, I'm going to focus on PDF forms. I should start by saying that PDF forms as part of web content can be accessible, or rather, can be made accessible with the right tools and understanding ...

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Ricky Onsman: The Accessibility Book Club is a group for accessibility professionals, developers and designers. The purpose of this group is to connect as a community through knowledge sharing professional development. We will read and discuss one book a month for the twelve months of 2024 ...

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 professional Jennison Asuncion, and by the following year GAAD was a reality ...

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Ricky Onsman: 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 ...

The idea of WordPress Accessibility Day is to host 24 online talks related to WordPress and accessibility in a 24 hour period: one every hour ...

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Andrew Downie: Amidst all the discussion and controversy over so-called AI (artificial intelligence) this is a very positive story ...

Ricky Onsman: 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 ...

This article is based on the first part of a presentation delivered by Ricky Onsman and Hans Hillen at CSUN 2024 Conference ...

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Bri Norton: OZeWAI is working with the Future Skills Organisation to gather case studies to include in their next iteration of the Digital Capability Workforce Plan ...

Regarding mathematics, there are additional considerations when it comes to ensuring that content is accessible ...

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This post really has two lists. First come the events scheduled for Jan-Dec 2024. Then there's a second list of older events from 2023 that haven't yet been scheduled but are likely to be ...

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Ricky Onsman: I figured the best thing to do is to follow my own “best advice” and conduct some testing. In particular, I wanted to test how various screen readers announce different variations in how currency is formatted ...

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We congratulate OZeWAI Committee member Andrew Downie on being recognised with an ATEND Honorary Life Memberships at the Pathways 16 conference ...

It's been a busy but productive year for OZeWAI with new a membership approach, multiple sub-committee projects and lots of conferences and events so we thought it would be good to share some highlights of 2023 ...

Ricky Onsman: Examples commonly encountered in web content include pie charts, line charts, column graphs, bar graphs, and infographics (where illustrations and embedded text are combined in a single image to convey detailed information) ...

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International Day of People With Disabilities (IDPwD) falls on the 3rd December each year. The purpose is to promote an understanding of disability issues, celebrate achievements by the disability community and encourage support for the dignity and rights of people with disabilities ...

Ricky Onsman: Podcasts have been one of the great enablers for exploring digital accessibility issues and for giving voice to people with disabilities in general ...

Ricky Onsman: Personally, I still like to have a good technical book propped open next to my laptop as I test out some code samples. Others may like to have an ebook open while they code ...

Ricky Onsman: 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 ...

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Andrew Downie: I have heard grumbles from several screen reader users about trouble with Google Docs - the approach needed is quite different to the seemingly ubiquitous Microsoft Office. While the following will hopefully provide some tips for screen reader users, the plan is also to provide some insights for ...

Ricky Onsman: We felt it would be useful to share this list, but I don't claim that it's comprehensive. Having said that, my list is long and can look daunting. I wouldn't expect anyone to follow all of these sources all of the time ...

Ricky Onsman: 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 declare that you're an adult - that's a form. When ...

Amanda Mace: 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, Spain ...

Ricky Onsman: 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 ...

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Ricky Onsman: 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 ...

Andrew Downie: Writing equations that both look as they should and are fully accessible can be a messy business ...

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Ricky Onsman: Web developers, designers and content authors may produce web content that inadvertently causes multiple failures of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) ...

Andrew Downie: Clear sound is important during any form of public speaking: lectures, tutorials, conference presentations – even group discussions that are broadcast online ...

Bri Norton: To ensure the 'shift-left' of accessibility the focus is more on how to involve People with Disability earlier in a project process rather than testing for accessibility (rather than only providing an audit report too late in the project). We look at some practical ways that can be ...

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Ricky Onsman: when we use numbers in web content, they must be made accessible to all people. In this article, we're going to explore what the major issues are for number accessibility in web content, who it affects and how, and what web creators can do about it ...

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Andrew Downie: I only attended Monday, the middle day of the three-day Conference on Information for People with Print Disabilities. Nevertheless, plenty of food for thought ...

We congratulate OZeWAI Committee member Andrew Normand on being recgonised for his "exceptional efforts in championing accessibility" with an ADCET 2023 Accessibility in Action Award ...

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Procurement of digital products and services is the other side of the ‘accessibility coin.’ OZeWAI has been busy in supporting a wide range of initiatives related to accessibility requirements in the procurement of ICT ...

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PWC workshop links ...

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OZeWAI has partnered with ResearchOps.Community to develop a workshop "ResearchOps - understanding accessibility and inclusive design" ...

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Andrew Downie: The following is an attempt to marry or, at least, arrange a harmonious relationship between two HTML elements. This happy couple, together, can provide more streamlined access to text descriptions of images ...

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We are pleased to be closing the year out with some major updates to how we support our members and on some future projects and activities that will benefit Australian digital accessibility professionals ...

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We'll be holding Get Online with a Screen Reader on 27 October, in which blind accessibility advocate Scott Nixon demonstrates using the VoiceOver screen reader built in to his iPhone to explore some popular websites ...

OZeWAI is collaborating with various other groups to advance the cause of digital accessibility in Australia ...

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