Announcing the winners of the first ever Australian Access Awards
13 December 2019
Winners of the 2019 Australian Access Awards were announced at an Award ceremony in Fremantle, Western Australia last night.
The Awards, an initiative of the Centre For Accessibility Australia, are…
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New documentary series on SBS is revolutionising the way people with disability are represented in media
5 November 2019
Perspective Shift, a new documentary series screening on SBS TV and SBS On Demand, uses groundbreaking approaches to share some rarely-depicted Australian stories. After decades of journalists and TV…
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Building in or bolting on? ITEE Engineers Australia presentation
2 March 2019
Posted by Dr Scott Hollier, Director and Co-founder of the Centre For Accessibility Australia
Earlier in the week it was a great privilege to be the Information, Telecommunications…
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Thank you Tasmania for continuing to Escape the Accessibility Island
20 February 2019
Dr. Scott Hollier, Director and Co-founder of the Centre For Accessibility Australia recently returned from running some workshops in Tasmania in partnership with the Centre For Accessibility Australia and…
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VisAbility release new online resource to empower vision impaired to navigate NDIS
21 November 2018
Western Australian based disability service provider VisAbility has officially launched My Vision My Choice, a new online resource to assist people with vision impairment to navigate the National Disability Insurance…
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Australian Digital Transformation Agency commits to WCAG 2.1 AA update
2 August 2018
Posted by Dr Scott Hollier, Director and Co-founder of the Centre For Accessibility Australia
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), a Federal government department that oversees the national Digital Service…
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Amazon updates Echo Show to support speech and hearing impaired users
30 July 2018
Posted by Dr Scott Hollier, Director and Co-founder of the Centre For Accessibility Australia
The Amazon Echo Show, a digital smartspeaker that includes a touchscreen, has received a new…
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ATO staff upskill in preparation for WCAG 2.1
17 July 2018
Posted by Dr Scott Hollier, Director and Co-founder of the Centre For Accessibility Australia
Last week it was a great privilege to provide a webinar to staff from the…
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Accessible gaming: the calls for improvement grow louder every Fortnite
2 July 2018
Posted by Dr Scott Hollier, Director and Co-founder of the Centre For Accessibility Australia
As a child of the 1980s, I find the evolution of video games a fascinating…
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Escaping the web accessibility island
22 June 2018
Posted by Dr Scott Hollier, Director and Co-founder of the Centre For Accessibility Australia
It’s a common story – you are a passionate accessibility advocate, trying to do your…
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