Australian government’s web accessibility efforts recognised through award
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The Making a Difference Award is given to organisations which have shown outstanding support for people who are blind or vision impaired.
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Study reveals most US Government websites are inaccessible
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The study, conducted by doctoral student Abiodun Olalere and Professor Jonathan Lazar, tested 100 popular US Government websites and discovered that 90% of home pages were in breach of the US Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508.
The types of issues discovered on the websites were varied, with the most prominent issues relating to a lack of alternative text for images, a lack of captions on video and incorrectly labelled forms.
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Updates on Google Chrome OS and screen reader support
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The Google Chrome blog post lists a number of changes to the latest version of Google Chrome operating system (Beta), including preliminary support for popular screen readers JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver.
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