The AccessibilityOz team is back from a very busy week in San Diego for the 33rd annual CSUN Assistive Technology Conference! Our booth handed out adorable clip-on koalas, our ever-popular fidget spinners and our even more popular Australian Caramello Koalas (which we ran out of on the second day! We’ll be sure to bring more
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News from AccessibilityOz and Beyond
Hi there, Time for an update on what we’re up to. In March, we’re heading to San Diego, USA, for CSUN, the largest conference on assistive technology in the world. We’re running four sessions at CSUN, and we’ll also be giving demos of OzART, OzPlayer and OzWiki at our booth. If you’re going, make sure
The OzART Advantage
AccessibilityOz’s automated reporting tool, OzART, simplifies the task of making sites accessible according to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG2) and Section 508/Refresh. It searches and reports defects in categories e.g. images, page titles, content and headings. This makes it easy for IT teams to work through fixing the defects, logically and systematically. The
Navigation Through the Nations: Transit Using Zoom
By Peggy Soo In this day and age we use our phones for just about everything. We check our emails, the time, how much we exercise (or not!), our social media account or just to read a book. I think the only thing my phone can’t do is make my bed or cook my dinner!
Our year in review – and a Happy Holidays from AccessibilityOz!
We started the year with a great project – conducting some testing for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind – and ended with some great training – content author and developer training for the University of Sydney. We’ve again had a busy year creating some amazing partnerships in Australia and the United States, including
Presenting AccessibilityOz, Inc. in the United States Market
AccessibilityOz is the largest accessibility consultancy based in Australia, with recent expansion into North America. Our company has served as a contractor, providing a variety of accessible products and services to municipalities, companies, universities, and organizations around the world. We have served clients in the United States since July of 2015, with offices located in
Which is the most accessible video player? Watch Gian’s free webinar to find out!
Edit: Due to technical difficulties, the webinar was rescheduled from Monday, October 30th to Friday, November 3rd at 3:00pm EST. Hope to see you there! From Brightcove to Kaltura, YouTube to Facebook, the internet has no shortage of video players and platforms. What it does have a shortage of, however, is video players that are accessible. CEO Gian
Gian is headed to the U.S. Oct – Nov 2017!
This upcoming month is going to be a busy one for Gian Wild, founder and CEO of AccessibilityOz. Gian will be traveling from Australia to the United States, where she’ll be hopping from accessibility conference to accessibility conference from October 12 to November 17, giving talks and training on the ins-and-outs of tech accessibility. Check
Navigation Through the Nations: Edmonton, Canada
By Wade The Canadian transit landscape is a patchwork quilt of public and privately run systems that often don’t communicate, but things are looking up. A prime example of accessible systems that didn’t used to mesh is my hometown, Edmonton Alberta. For about 20 years, I lived in a suburb of Edmonton called St. Albert,
Navigation Through the Nations: Perth, Western Australia
By Grace I have lived in a variety of places in my life including a medium sized college city called Madison Wisconsin, a little town called Wausau, The fairly large city of Denver Colorado and finally Perth Western Australia. I have to say that of all of the places I have lived, Perth has the