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March 2015
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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...
February 2015
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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...
January 2015
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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...
December 2014
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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...
November 2014
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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...

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