- From: <Andrew.Arch@visionaustralia.org.au>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 16:43:32 +1000
- To: jbrewer@w3.org
- Cc: EOWG <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org>
Hi Judy, Busy week in Australia: Full day Web Accessibility Workshop in Sydney with 27 participants. The most pleasing aspect was that 13 of these came from the banking and finance sector and another 4 from design or usability firms. Most of the remainder were from various levels of government. Spoke to around 40 senior managers from the Australian Capital Territory Government at an Executive Breakfast meeting about the importance of on-line accessibility and who benefits from implementing WCAG, and illustrated the issues with a few eye-opening demonstrations. Addressed an Australian Capital Territory Government "eThursday" meeting of over 70 web managers and communications managers about why web accessibility is important, what some of the common issues are, and how they can get started checking for accessibility. Again I illustrated the seminar with examples and demonstrations. Andrew _________________________________ Dr Andrew Arch Manager Online Accessibility Consulting, National Information & Library Service Ph 613 9864 9222; Fax 613 9864 9210; Mobile 0438 755 565 http://www.nils.org.au/ | http://www.it-test.com.au/ | http://www.dc-anz.org/ NILS - A Joint Venture between the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind, The Royal Blind Society of NSW, and Vision Australia Foundation.
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