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Sunday, January 25, 2004
The Link Trail to Accessibility
On a chase for an easier way for people to choose to listen to our Internet Relay Chat discussions, I was reminded of Ronolog by a member of the RPList. I'd forgotten to check my own site on Access to the Internet for People Who Have Vision Impairments and so I decided it was time for a page update.
Australian government sites now listed are the National Office for the Information Economy's People with Disabilities site and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's 'World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes.'
Accessibility checkers can be used in tandem with other Web design programs and two of these are now listed. Adobe GoLive - Accessibility gives news of how basic accessibility checks can be performed using Adobe's Web design tool GoLive. UsableNet's LIFT for Macromedia Dreamweaver is available and can help Web designers create accessible and more usable sites as part of the design process.
Vision Australia, a non-proft agency for people who are blind and vision impaired, is now offering Web Accessibility Training around Australia. Through their site I learnt of two other useful organisations concerned with Web accessibility. The first is OzeWAI, an Australian Web content accessibility forum that organises conferences and discusses issues via an e-mail discussion list. The second is the Web Standards Project, which aims to work towards standards that allow everyone simple and affordable access to Web technologies.
And finally, I discovered (also through Vision Australia's site) UsableWeb. UsableWeb offers over 1000 links on information architecture and usability. The site is no longer updated with new links but the maintainer still cleans out dead links.
Australian government sites now listed are the National Office for the Information Economy's People with Disabilities site and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission's 'World Wide Web Access: Disability Discrimination Act Advisory Notes.'
Accessibility checkers can be used in tandem with other Web design programs and two of these are now listed. Adobe GoLive - Accessibility gives news of how basic accessibility checks can be performed using Adobe's Web design tool GoLive. UsableNet's LIFT for Macromedia Dreamweaver is available and can help Web designers create accessible and more usable sites as part of the design process.
Vision Australia, a non-proft agency for people who are blind and vision impaired, is now offering Web Accessibility Training around Australia. Through their site I learnt of two other useful organisations concerned with Web accessibility. The first is OzeWAI, an Australian Web content accessibility forum that organises conferences and discusses issues via an e-mail discussion list. The second is the Web Standards Project, which aims to work towards standards that allow everyone simple and affordable access to Web technologies.
And finally, I discovered (also through Vision Australia's site) UsableWeb. UsableWeb offers over 1000 links on information architecture and usability. The site is no longer updated with new links but the maintainer still cleans out dead links.
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