This part three of a four-part series explores different accessibility issues that can be solved by using Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). See also part 1. ARIA and accessibility: Navigation and part 2. ARIA and accessibility: Live Updat
This part two of a four-part series explores different accessibility issues that can be solved by using Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). See also part 1. ARIA and accessibility: Navigation and part 3. ARIA and accessibility: Widgets. On
This is part one of a four-part series explores different accessibility issues that can be solved by using Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). See also part 2. ARIA and accessibility: Navigation and part 3. ARIA and accessibility: Widgets.
The Emergency 2.0 Wiki Accessibility Toolkit was launched in December 2012 to empower people with a disability to use social media to prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters. Webbism Director Richard Corby talked to Vision Australia Radio&
On behalf of the Emergency 2.0 Wiki Accessibility Reference Group, I’m really excited to announce that people with a disability in the community will now be empowered to use social media for to disaster prepare for, respond to and recover from disast
As I mentioned in part 1 of my Texpo post, I went to Texpo 2012 at the Vision Australia Brisbane brisbane office and learnt so much that this post is going to be broken into three parts. Part 1 focused on NVDA the free, open source screenreader, part
I went to Texpo 2012 last week (7 September) at the Vision Australia office in Brisbane and learnt heaps. So much so that this post is going to be broken into three parts. Texpo is Vision Australia’s annual expo for blindness, low vision and disabili
I recently read Vision Australia’s Achieving Accessibility in SharePoint 2010 white paper and found it really interesting because when I worked in a web team for the Australian federal government, SharePoint was synonymous with being horribly, horrib
Disabled users are users. This might seem like a straightforward or even a trite statement, but its a point worth making since Usability (or UX – User Experience) is a growing field which has the fantastic goal (and one very close to my heart)
I’ve been reading the great report by Media Access Australia, Sociability: Social media for people with a disability, and it got me inspired to find the “quick reference guide that can provide support for the most likely issues including keyboard sho