Tag Archives: National Transition Strategy

FaHCSIA’s web accessibility video

This contribution comes from the Web Operations Team at the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services & Indigenous Affairs.
December 2012 will see AGIMO’s first deadline for all Australian Government agencies to meet WCAG 2.0 Level A requirements as outlined in the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy (NTS).
Earlier this year, the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and [...]

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Microsoft Office Accessibility Training Sessions for the Australian Government

In a similar manner to the Adobe education sessions run 12 months ago, Microsoft will be running two training sessions in Canberra on optimising the accessibility of Microsoft Office documents. These sessions will primarily focus on Word, however PowerPoint and Excel will also be covered. The sessions have been designed specifically for Australian Public Service [...]

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Reaching all the people: an accessibility update from AGIMO on Thursday 27th October 2011

AGIMO’s Accessibility team would like to invite you to an upcoming web accessibility seminar, “Reaching all the people: an accessibility update from AGIMO”, to be hosted at University House on Thursday 27th October 2011.
As part of the Australian Government’s commitment to improved Web Accessibility, AGIMO is hosting a full day seminar for Australian Government web, [...]

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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 the work of Jacqui and Raven, it is the place to go to for relevant and reliable information on online accessibility issues in the Australian [...]

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