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AccessibilityOz recently completed a major review and redesign project with The Department of Industry to review the Energy Rating site. Energy Rating is a part of the Equipment Energy Efficiency (E3) Program – a joint initiative of the Australian, Commonwealth, State and Territory governments and the New Zealand Government. The project consisted of four phases:

So I’m a mentor for GovHack. I’m in Canberra but I’m available to anyone over the weekend. Just contact me via one of the methods below: Email me (gian@accessibilityoz.com.au) Tweet me (@accessibilityoz) Skype me (gianwild) GovHack has just launched and everyone is talking through their ideas, and it certainly isn’t time for accessibility yet. But

Cost: Free Melbourne (please note the venue change): 9 am, Monday 31st March, Holiday Inn, 575 Flinders Lane Canberra: Unfortunately we have had to cancel our Canberra event due to a scheduling conflict. If you would like us to come to you and demonstrate either OzPlayer or BrowseAloud, please contact us. Brisbane (please note the

By Gian Wild An extract of this article appears on Sitepoint called ‘Making Accessible Links: 15 Golden Rules for Developers‘. Introduction Links. It’s a lot more than just avoiding “click here”. And, to my eternal shame, WCAG2 even allows “click here” as a valid technique for link text (see Example 1 in Technique G53). WCAG2

Cost: Free Melbourne: Monday 3rd March Canberra: Wednesday 5th March Brisbane: Friday 7th March Sydney: Monday 10th March Register now! Texthelp Ltd and AccessibilityOz are speaking at a free breakfast seminar on the products available to improve the accessibility compliance of your site. These products are BrowseAloud (an assistive technology) and OzPlayer (an accessible video

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

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

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 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

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