Accessibility testing: mobile and apps
OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 11 September 2025 – Accessibility testing tips and tricks for mobile and apps.| OZeWAI
Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 23 October. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” 24 October: Testing PDF Documents for Accessibility “Ask The Professionals” 13 November: Accessibility Testing – ARIA “Ask The Professionals” 11 September: Testing for Accessibility on Mobile (recording available) OZeWAI Annual General Meeting Ask The Professionals: 2026 From the OZeWAI Website Weekly Reading List 20 […]| OZeWAI
Case Study: Adyen Vispero: How Adyen is Leading the Future of Accessible Payments with JAWS® for Kiosk. Vispero and Aira Announce Strategic Partnership Vispero: to Increase Awareness and Promote Equal Access for Online Communities. Case Study: Practising Law Institute Vispero: how TPGi helped PLI significantly reduce their legal risk and improve accessibility across their digital […]| OZeWAI
Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2 TPGi: Aditya Jainapur explains what SC 4.1.1 covered, why it was removed, how it affects accessibility in practice, and which criteria now address issues once covered by parsing. Tables: Beyond Rows and Columns TPGi: Akash Shukla explains the best way to use semantic table markup to […]| OZeWAI
Creating a truly accessible Flip Card TPGi: small blocks of content designed to resemble a playing card or business card, or similar two-sided thing. Webinar: An Introduction to ChatGPT – Conversations, Creativity, and Clarity Freedom Scientific: Introduction to Using ChatGPT with JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion. Thursday, October 2 at noon ET on Zoom. Employee Spotlight: […]| OZeWAI
Proof Documents Faster and More Efficiently with JAWS Text Analyzer| ozewai.org
OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 13 November 2025 – Accessibility testing ARIA. Panelists Andrew Downie (he/him) Andrew worked for TAFE NSW for 25 years in the areas of assistive technology and accessible online material. He now works part time for University of Technology Sydney as an Accessibility Consultant. A psychologist by training and inclination, Andrew […]| OZeWAI
Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 10 September. OZeWAI News OZeWAI – DDA Consultation Workshop “Ask The Professionals” 24 October: Testing PDF Documents for Accessibility “Ask The Professionals” 13 November: Accessibility Testing – ARIA “Ask The Professionals” 11 September: Testing for Accessibility on Mobile (recording available) Ask The Professionals: 2026 Get Online Week with Ability Works Australia […]| OZeWAI
Understanding the Removal of 4.1.1 Parsing in WCAG 2.2 TPGi: what SC 4.1.1 covered, why it was removed, how it affects accessibility in practice, and which criteria now address issues once covered by parsing. Webinar: An Introduction to ChatGPT: Conversations, Creativity, and Clarity Freedom Scientific: Rescheduled to Thursday, October 9 at 12noon ET. Podcast: Enhancing […]| OZeWAI
OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 24 October 2025 – Accessibility testing PDFs. Panelists Charissa Ramirez (she/her) Charissa is a senior accessibility consultant who advocates and designs for accessibility and inclusion. She has held various roles in digital channels, strategic communications, and policy teams in federal and NSW Government departments. She initiated accessibility programs and performed […]| OZeWAI
Creating a truly accessible Flip Card| ozewai.org
Background This is a test to see how screen readers treat time with a colon (hh:mm) versus a period (hh.mm). Testing date: 6 August, 2025. Observations Hours and minutes formatted with a colon are read consistency by all major browsers and screen readers. Hours and minutes formatted with a period are not read consistently by […]| OZeWAI
Accessibility testing: mobile and apps| ozewai.org
OZeWAI Ask the Professionals session – 11 September 2025 – Accessibility testing tips and tricks for mobile and apps.| OZeWAI
Universal Design vs Inclusive Design| ozewai.org
OK, let’s be honest: that “vs” (for “versus”) shouldn’t even be in this post’s title. It’s not like Universal Design and Inclusive Design are at war with each other.| OZeWAI
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. It is a system that almost always relies on a user’s vision to determine whether the user of a web site is a human or a bot. Unfortunately, due to its inherently visual nature, when CAPTCHAs were initially developed they were completely inaccessible to people who used screen readers, and sometimes to people with low vision and cognitive disabilities.| OZeWAI
This post was prompted by some discussion at TPGi about the use of em dash punctuation, on two fronts:| ozewai.org
Mental health disabilities (sometimes called “psychosocial disabilities”) are often overlooked when people think about accessibility. In fact, WCAG2 does not reference the needs of people with mental health disabilities at all. According to Healthdirect Australia, the main groups of mental health disabilities are:| ozewai.org
People with cognitive, language and learning disabilities comprise the largest group of those with disabilities accessing the web—approximately 15 to 20% of the population. It is important to remember that people with cognitive disabilities often have a problem in only one area of cognition and can be of average or higher-than-average intelligence. People with cognitive disabilities are just as likely as those without disabilities to be in technical careers and/or careers requiring high int...| ozewai.org
Digital Accessibility in Australia| ozewai.org
Webinar: ADA Title II: What Public Entities Need to Know About Digital Accessibility| OZeWAI
