Australian outreach updates

Hello,

In Australia we are finding considerable increased interest in our workshop
offerings [1] this year. We have had to double up on many web accessibility
sessions and are finding we are booked out well in advance. We have also had
recent requests to run in-house workshops for groups from Australian
Parliament and from the South Australian Government and interest from some
local governments.

We have introduced a new workshop on Writing for the Web which is being
presented by Dey Alexander [2] from Monash University and is proving very
popular. This workshop has been developed with a strong emphasis on the
usability and accessibility of web content and is generating a lot of
interest for in-house presentations too.

This month we have already run two web accessibility workshops in Adelaide.
For the remainder of the month we have one in Melbourne next week and one in
Canberra in the last week. We are also running both a public and an in-house
writing for the web workshop and two in-house half-day seminars on writing
for the web.

I am also presenting at an Intranet Conference [3] in Sydney next week, and
at a corporate breakfast meeting and at an Australian Government seminar [4]
in Canberra the week after. The Australian Govt seminar is a joint one with
Dey introducing both web accessibility and clear writing.

Cheers, Andrew

[1] http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/index.html
[2] http://www.deyalexander.com/
[3]
http://www.ark-group.com/home/events/event.asp?eventid=5306DB8F-92C7-4561-82
C8-4B11ACFCAA52
[4] http://www.agimo.gov.au/resources/events
_________________________________
Dr Andrew Arch
Manager Online Accessibility Consulting
Accessible Information Solutions, NILS
Ph 613 9864 9282; Fax 613 9864 9210; Mobile 0438 755 565
http://www.nils.org.au/ais/ | http://www.ozewai.org/2005/

Member, Education & Outreach Working Group,
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/

National Information & Library Service, Australia
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Received on Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:44:05 UTC