Late Bird Specials to Canberra Accessibility Week

If you are a non-profit you can get 50% off all training sessions and free attendance to our accessibility seminar day. All training sessions for Canberra Accessibility Week are now 20% off. Contact us and give us your best definition of accessibility to win free tickets to Canberra Accessibility Week! Register for Canberra

Free Digital Inclusion Briefing in Melbourne

16th April We are happy to announce we are running two sessions with BrowseAloud in Melbourne next week. RSVP Please confirm your attendance to Shauna McCollum s.mccollum@browsealoud.com, outlining which session you would like to attend and any special dietary requirements, to ensure that we have plenty of food to go around on the day. Please

Free Digital Conversations breakfast in Canberra

Registrations still open! AccessibilityOz, in partnership with Reading Room and BrowseAloud are pleased to bring you our free Digital Conversations breakfast. Australian Government legislation requires websites to meet a set of WCAG 2.0 standards on delivering accessible website by the end of 2013. Most of you are aware of the requirements, but how does this

Accessibility Week – Canberra and Melbourne

Accessibility Week is an established conference and training event that has successfully run across Australia. Accessibility Week 2013 locations and dates are: Melbourne – Monday 22nd to Friday 26th July (location to be advised) Canberra – Monday 12th to Friday 16th August at the National Library The week consists of a one day conference followed by three streams of training for

10 questions for Sharon Litchfield

Sharon Litchfield is the manager of our Brisbane office. Here we ask her ten questions. How long have you been working at AccessibilityOz? Almost 12 months – I started in April 2012. Where were you before joining AccessibilityOz? I was a web-developer for the Queensland Government for 11 years. What started you in the accessibility

Government data needs to be published in accessible formats… and that’s not PDF

The Guardian recently released an article about Government transparency and the need to publish documents in formats other than PDF. Government data PDF enthusiasts will be ‘dealt with’, says Maude and most government departments breaching the UK’s own transparency rules. Read more about Open Government and the use of PDFs.  

AccessibilityOz is growing!

Hot on the heels of our Canberra Accessibility Week, AccessibilityOz is pleased to announce we are opening offices in both Canberra and Brisbane. Sharon Litchfield will be heading up the Brisbane office, and Gian Wild will be moving to Canberra to run the Canberra office. If you’d like to visit us – or for us

A new motivation to remove your PDFs – increase traffic by 1.6 million hits

That’s what Department of Primary Industries found when they removed the PDFs from their site. Initially deciding to remove the PDFs for accessibility reasons, their business case made itself when HTML version of a PDF attracted 160 visitors to every one person that had previously opened the PDF file. For more information read Briarbird’s interview

Accessibility Week

We are running a Melbourne Accessibility Week and a Canberra Accessibility Week. Are you aware that the Victorian and federal Government has set a December 2012 deadline for all Government websites to be Level A WCAG2 compliant? Register now for Melbourne Accessibility Week! If you would like to see Accessibility Week at another location, register

AccessibilityOz Launch

Last Tuesday we had an official launch party at Feddish in Federation Square. It was great to socialise with staff and clients in a relaxed setting. We had over forty clients attend the three hour launch. Katherine, our Events Director, put in an enormous amount of effort to have the place looking wonderful. We had