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What is Sociability?

Media Access Australia has undertaken research to overcome accessibility issues found in the most popular social media tools.

Visit our page on social media for people with a disability.

Caption YouTube videos

Captions on video can greatly improve access for Deaf and hearing impaired users. Our guide explains how to add captions to your YouTube videos.

Read the guide to captioning YouTube videos.

Google Chrome accessibility

Here's our handy guide to screen magnification settings, web page colour management and useful keyboard shortcuts in Google's web browser.

Check out the Google Chrome accessibility guide.

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Monday, 18 September 2017
Excluded web visitors often don’t complain, they just leave

The facts speak clearly – 71% of web users with a disability will simply leave a website that is not accessible to them, according to recent research from the US Government’s 'Section 508'. Not only is this bad for the business community, Government utilities, and society in general, digital inaccessibility is excluding millions of Australians from enjoying the positive interactions online that people without disability take for granted.
Monday, 14 August 2017
Five Guys burger chain in a pickle over website inaccessibility

On 21 July 2017, a US federal district court in Manhattan rejected a ‘motion to dismiss’ claim by the ‘Five Guys’ burger chain (Case No. 17-cv-788) defending their alleged inaccessible website. The judge found that there is indeed a case of discrimination to answer against a legally-blind customer who couldn’t order the burger they wanted from the fast food seller’s site.
Tuesday, 11 April 2017
I am not a Robot! - the access implications of Google’s new Invisible reCAPTCHA

Google has taken one more step towards a fully-automated bot-detection system with the launch of ‘Invisible reCAPTCHA’ - which hopefully spells an end to having to prove that you are not a robot all of the time. But what are the accessibility implications?
Monday, 23 January 2017
Registrations open for 8 February Web Accessibility Camp in Perth

Got something to share or learn about web accessibility? Then the Perth Web Accessibility Camp is where you need to be. It’s being staged on 8 February at Bankwest House in the city, in the lead up to the Web for All (W4A) 2017 conference in April, co-located with the International World Wide Web 2017 (WWW2017) conference.
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Website inaccessibility court cases on the rise

In March 2016 ‘Colorado Bags n’ Baggage’ became the first retailer in the US to lose a litigation case because their website was inaccessible. Today, there are dozens of court cases that are either scheduled to be heard or that have already settled out of court, as a surge of legal cases bring web accessibility into the mainstream, with broader implications for Australia and around the world.
Friday, 22 July 2016
Progress with accessibility needed in New Zealand

121 students took over New Zealand’s Parliament to debate about ‘Accessible Web Pages and Apps’. This was a mock bill aiming to improve accessibility in NZ.
Thursday, 21 July 2016
G3ict acquires IAAP in global accessibility merger

The Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ict) has announced it will be acquiring the International Association of Accessibility Professionals(IAAP) in a merger aimed at promoting the accessibility profession on a more global scale.

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