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31 March 2015 |
Empathy and the accessible web experience Have you considered taking an empathy-based approach to identifying how your organisation can make itself more accessible for people with... |
18 March 2015 |
NSW set for web accessible 2015 election The forthcoming NSW election is looking to be one of Australia’s more accessible state elections thanks to the remote electronic voting system, iVote... |
11 March 2015 |
NVDA remote access crowdfunding campaign launches Third party supporters of NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access), the free screen reading software, have launched a campaign seeking financial support to... |
06 March 2015 |
#CSUN15 wrap up The world’s major accessibility conference, the Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (#CSUN15) is close to... |
05 March 2015 |
NVDA 2015.1 screen reader released: hands-on first impressions NVDA, the free screen reader for Windows which is one of the world’s most popular, continues to receive significant improvements with the latest... |
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24 February 2015 |
Bloggers encouraged to audiocast their posts A campaign has been launched to encourage bloggers and other online content creators to provide audiocasts with their posts. Speak Your Word, an... |
19 February 2015 |
ACMA reports on Australians’ online video use The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a report which looks at the different ways that Australians are viewing TV... |
17 February 2015 |
Coles web accessibility case settled The case against grocery retailer Coles, for the alleged inaccessibility of its online shopping service, has been settled. |
16 February 2015 |
Harvard & MIT sued over lack of captions Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are being sued for the alleged discrimination against people who are Deaf or... |
06 February 2015 |
YouTube admits automatic captions have a way to go Google’s YouTube has admitted that it needs to work harder to provide better quality automatic captions for content uploaded to its video streaming... |
04 February 2015 |
YouTube embraces HTML5 The accessibility of Google’s YouTube video service looks set to improve thanks to the recent decision by the internet giant to abandon Adobe’s Flash... |
04 February 2015 |
Web accessibility is everyone’s responsibility As anyone familiar with the web accessibility space will have noted, discrimination complaints against companies who do not make their websites and... |
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28 January 2015 |
Call for participants in new Twitter and communication disabilities study A new Australian study into the ways in which people with communication disabilities use the social media platform Twitter for information exchange... |
27 January 2015 |
Accessible documents and automated tools Media Access Australia spoke to Dr Jason Guo, Systems Architect and Web Developer at XiNG Digital, ahead of his presentation on using an automated... |
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16 December 2014 |
Skype Translator moves closer to general availability Microsoft has announced that its Skype Translator tool—which provides real time translations of different spoken languages to text captions—has moved... |
11 December 2014 |
Lloyds Banking Group on implementing web accessibility Media Access Australia spoke to Graeme Whippy, Senior Disability Manager at Lloyds Banking Group about how to build a business case for web... |
08 December 2014 |
Next steps for web accessibility in Australia announced The inclusion of accessibility in a digital design guide and a second NTS progress survey are just two of the next steps in Australian government web... |
03 December 2014 |
Social media, cloud show signs of improved access The accessibility of social media and the cloud are beginning to mature, but access issues remain for people with disabilities, Media Access... |
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28 November 2014 |
Westpac banking app inaccessible: Former Disability Commissioner Former Australian Disability Commissioner Graeme Innes is lodging a complaint against major Australian bank Westpac due to the alleged... |
25 November 2014 |
Online retail web accessibility guide Now that a legal case has been brought against Coles for a lack of web accessibility of its online shopping site, and that a similar case in the US... |