Vision Australia: Web Accessibility Workshops

Date: 24-Apr-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Accessibility

These full-day workshops run by Vision Australia, are targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers.

These workshops provide a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them. They cover the World Wide Web Consortium's Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation and a consideration of assessment tools and techniques.

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Australian uni launches first web accessibility course for professionals

Australia’s first university-backed web accessibility course offers industry professionals the practical skills needed to meet international accessibility standards, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.

A joint venture by Media Access Australia and the University of South Australia, the Professional Certificate in Web Accessibility aims to support the Australian Government’s commitment to making government websites accessible as part of the National Transition Strategy (NTS), by equipping technical and managerial staff with web accessibility expertise.

The first course for 2012 will run from 16 April – 25 May.

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