FullCodePress and accessibility

Date: 26-Jul-07
Author: Russ Weakley

There have been a few comments recently about the lack of an accessibility expert position on the FullCodePress teams. Have we been ignoring accessibility?

The answer is no, we wanted to surprise the teams...

The FullCodePress judging panel will comprise of two accessibility judges. Gian Sampson-Wild will be assessing the sites with the other judges at the FullCodePress event and Derek Featherstone will be assessing the sites, live from Canada.

It gets more interesting...
Derek will be assessing the sites against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, and Gian will be assessing the sites against the recently produced Web Content Accessibility Guidelines - Samurai Errata. This means both teams will really have to be on their toes!

Stay tuned as we announce the full judging panel over the coming days.

Recent WIPA event:

Usability and Eye Tracking Seminar

An afternoon seminar with Dr Peter Brawn and Dr John Eklund on the latest eyetracking technologies and the challenges of ensuring usability during Agile Development.

The seminar was held in Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane.

Some of the comments received:

  • "Excellent! Incredibly interesting content"
  • "I found the seminar useful, particularly the eye-tracking content as a tool for improvement in usability and design for the web."
  • "I found it an interesting and economical afternoon (I paid my own registration). The presenters kept my interest all the way along and I'm very glad that I attended."
  • "I found the workshop useful especially the presentation on agile project management and usability."