This story which aired on ABC News recently features Nas Campanella, the ABC’s first cadet journo with a visual impairment. It is a truly inspiring tale of how assistive technology can be used within the workplace. I won’t spoil it, but p
Today, May 9 marks GAAD, or Global Accessibility Awareness Day. A now truly worldwide event that encourages people to take time from their lives to observe, engage and discuss the needs digital accessibility and people with different disabilities. As
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