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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.  

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

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

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

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

Gian Wild will be speaking on PDFs and accessibility at Accessing Higher Ground in Boulder, Colorado, USA this Friday. Accessing Higher Ground is an accessible media, web and technology conference focussed on tertiary education. Gian Wild spent five years working with Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and as part of her work reviewed the accessibility

My second Sitepoint.com article has been published on Information and Relationships. Would love to hear your comments!

While at Web Directions in Sydney a couple of weeks ago I was approached by Sitepoint.com to write a series of articles that further explained my session at the conference. The first of these articles is now live at Sitepoint.com: The hidden nuggets of WCAG2. Enjoy!

Gian Wild will be speaking at Web Directions South for the third time. Her first presentation at the premier web conference was in 2006 when she talked about the work she had done with Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. In 2009, Gian was asked back and talked about the introduction of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines,

Will YOU stand up and be counted? It’s  a fair bet to say that every Australian’s life at some stage has been affected by disability in some way.   Whether you are a consumer of disability services, caring for someone with a disability, have a friend, family member or colleague with a disability or work in