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Sector News Created: 17 Dec 2024
Vision Australia: Digital Accessibility Training 2025
Vision Australia's virtual online training enables professionals and whole organisations to achieve the highest standards in digital accessibility and communication. The advice and training they provide is based on the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1, as well as best practices from their extensive experience working with people with a wide range of abilities.
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Web link Created: 17 Oct 2023
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, released in October 2023, covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. In this version of the standards, nine new success criteria have been included which take into account new technologies and functions like multi-factor authentication that are more in use since WCAG 2.1 was released in 2018.
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Web link Created: 20 Jun 2022
Free Colour Contrast Checkers
Axess lab have put together a list of seven great free tools that help you measure colour contrasts and create beautiful, accessible colour schemes that meet the contrast requirements in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
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Web link Created: 20 Jun 2022
Using persona profiles to test accessibility
The Accessibility Team at the Government Digital Service (GDS) in the UK, created accessibility personas to highlight common barriers faced by people with particular conditions and provide tips on how to design for them.
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Web link Created: 20 Jun 2022
Accessible Lists - Blog post by Léonie Watson
A list is generally agreed to be a series of words or phrases that are grouped together for a reason. That reason might be to remember the items we want from the store, to share our top five favourite movies, or to write down the steps needed to complete a task.
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Web link Created: 20 Jun 2022
Testing with Screen Readers
What are the benefits of testing web content with screen readers?
Listening to your web content rather than looking at it can be an "eye-opening" experience (pardon the pun) that takes sighted users out of their normal comfort zone. This guide from WebAIM will help you test and experience your web content with a screen reader. -
Web link Created: 1 Aug 2021
Silktide - Website Disability Simulator
Silktide is a browser plugin for the Chrome, Opera, Brave and Microsoft Edge browsers. Silktide helps you develop accessible websites by simulating a range of disabilities including Color blindness, Dyslexia, Myopia / Blurred vision, Blindness, Tunnel vision / peripheral vision loss and more.
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Web link Created: 1 Aug 2021
Sa11y - The accessibility quality assurance assistant
Sa11y is an accessibility quality assurance tool that visually highlights common accessibility and usability issues on webpages, With a single click, Sa11y straightforwardly identifies errors or warnings at the source and provides a simple tooltip on how to fix them.
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Web link Created: 15 Jul 2021
How to write accessible descriptions for interactive charts
The digital age is a visual experience. Exploring multi-media today exposes us to vast amounts of complex information conveyed through a wide array of graphics and images. Websites are immersive experiences that encourage us to interact with content on the page. However, for a large section of society these images are merely undiscoverable blanks. Unseen and unknown.
In this detailed tutorial, you will learn how human-generated descriptions can enhance the accessibility and user experience for everyone.
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Article Created: 6 Jul 2010
Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy (WCAG 2.0)
The Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy outlined a course for improved web services, paving the way for a more accessible and usable web environment that aimed to fully engage with, and allow participation from, all people within our society. With the release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0), developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Australian Government established the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy to improve the provision of information and services online. The Strategy ran from 2010 to 2014)