Practical web accessibility
Australian university adopts Google Apps for Education with known accessibility issues
Google Apps for Education is a suite of hosted email and collaboration applications, such as Google Mail (Gmail), Google Documents and Google Calendar, that are available to schools and universities free of charge.
Brian Clark, Executive Director of Information Technology Services at RMIT, is also expecting students to use the collaborative applications in the suite.
“There’s a range of collaborative features built into Google Apps’ technology that will allow students to collaborate on assignments,” said Clark.
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Dr Scott Hollier on accessibility at the Australian Web Awards
Roberta: Today we have Doctor Scott Hollier with us, Media Access Australia Project Manager, to talk about the upcoming Australian Web Awards. Scott, and Sarah Pulis, also from Media Access Australia, will this year be involved in the judging process, which includes accessibility. Welcome Scott.
Dr Hollier: Thanks Roberta. Thanks for having me back.
Roberta: Now can you tell us a little about the Australian Web Awards?
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Accessibility and Adobe Flash
Accessibility and Adobe Flash
Flash content has its own accessibility challenges, and it is important that Flash content meet the success criteria of WCAG 2.0 in the same way that other technologies are required to meet these guidelines. There has quite a lot of work done, particularly by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and Adobe itself, to create resources that support developers to create more accessible Flash content.
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