Tips – OZeWAI

Tech for Social Justice Conference

Proudly facilitated by InfoXchange, and hosted by Telstra Customer Insights Centre (CIC).

Ability Works and OZeWAI presentation (powerpoint)

Accessible and well-designed websites

Australian Access Awards – 2025
Tips for teams ABC: Tips for Teams
ABC – Triple J – Hottest 100

Activity and resource links

Activity 1: Colour contrast checking tools

RGB to HEX colour converter RGB to HEX
Colour Contrast Checker
The Accessible Color Generator
WebAIM: Contrast Checker (has a lot of supporting information)
Who can use
Not Just a Checklist

Activity 2:

Caption myths

Captions Only Help People With Hearing Disability And Older Adults

Captions are popular with https://bit.ly/3zdFBCq and those without hearing disability:

Seventy percent of digital-native https://bit.ly/4d4C4Ei frequently use captions versus millennials (53%) and boomers (35%). Gen Z watches content in public (74%) more than others (57%).
The reasons for this: Background music distorts dialogue (78%); dialogue is hard to hear (55%); visuals poorly lit (44%); talent talking too fast (35%); and accents are hard to understand (61%).
In a 2023 U.K. study by https://www.stagetext.org/news/research-shows-42-of-people-say-concentration-is-a-reason-to-use-subtitles/, 42% stated they use subtitles or captions for better concentration.
Captions usage exceeds hearing loss. According to Stagetext (via https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59259964), 80% of 18-to-24-year-old adults use captions, but only 10% have a hearing disability. For adults aged 56 to 75, only 23% reported caption use with 18% with hearing loss. In the U.S., https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=131860 (18 to 54) who use captions are not deaf and hard of hearing.

Navigating content examples

Equal access to content:

YouTube Video 1:43 min: How do you surf the web without a mouse? An introduction to keyboard navigation
Tab or Shift/Tab to access interactive elements (such as links and buttons)
W3C Fundamentals – Accessibility: It’s About People

Activity 4: Keyboard navigation shortcuts

Tab: Moves focus to the next interactive element on the page (links, form fields, menus, etc.).
Shift + Tab: Moves focus to the previous interactive element on the page.
Enter/Spacebar: Activates the focused element, simulating a click.
Arrow Keys (Left, Right, Up, Down): Used for navigating within text, menus, and other elements.
Home: Moves the cursor to the beginning of the line or page.
End: Moves the cursor to the end of the line or page.
Page Up/Page Down: Scrolls up or down one page.
Control + Tab: Moves to the next tab in a browser or application.
Control + Shift + Tab: Moves to the previous tab in a browser or application.
Esc: Closes a menu or dialog box.
Ctrl + F: Opens the Find feature in most applications.
Ctrl + W: Closes the current tab or window.
Ctrl + Z: Undoes the last action.
Ctrl + Y: Redoes the last action.

OZeWAI Resources

About OZeWAI membership:

Event partners information and links

Ability Works is an award-winning social enterprise, producing goods and services for government, business, and non-profits. Operations are accredited to ISO 9001:2015 and NSDS quality standards and Social Traders certification. Ability Works is also an accredited NDIS service provider. Ability Works specialises in:

Recruiting for people with vision, hearing, cognitive, physical, gender, cultural and age differences
Coordinating research sessions led by people with lived experience of disability
Creating more inclusive customer experiences based on the WCAG criteria, so organisations can design services that are usable by people with disabilities.