Good document design is the key to accessibility
The Australian Government’s study into the Accessibility of the Portable Document Format for people with a disability The web accessibility thread remains the most popular of our blog themes. Thanks to...
View ArticlePDF Accessibility Education Sessions for the Australian Government
Adobe are running a series of education sessions in Canberra on optimising PDF documents for accessibility. These sessions have been designed specifically for Australian Public Servants (APS). We are...
View ArticleTesting PDF Accessibility
Recently Adobe ran a series of education sessions for public servants in Canberra about optimising PDF documents for accessibility. AGIMO has published the Adobe presentations on the Web Guide to...
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Draft WCAG 2.0 techniques for review – PDF and Silverlight
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has released draft versions of WCAG 2.0 techniques to support PDF and Silverlight and has issued a call for review. AGIMO are...
View Articlee-Publication accessibility
Recently the Australian Security Research Centre hosted an information sharing session on “i-documents & other e-publications”. It included information on a range of e-publishing trends including...
View ArticleRelease of WCAG 2.0 Techniques for PDF
On 3 January 2012, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) published updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, including new techniques for...
View ArticleVideo and transcripts of Microsoft accessibility training sessions
In May 2012, AGIMO and Microsoft partnered to deliver two training sessions for APS staff focused on improving the accessibility of documents created in Microsoft Office. The video and transcripts from...
View ArticlePDF Accessibility becomes ISO standard
In January this year, I blogged about the Release of WCAG 2.0 Techniques for PDF. The publishing of these PDF techniques by the W3C gave us formal guidance for the creation of highly accessible PDF...
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