Weekly Reading List<br> 25 August 2025
Position Vacant: Senior IT Accessibility Specialist App/Web| OZeWAI
27-28 August, ACMI, Melbourne It takes a fair bit to get me out of my Corrimal hideaway these days, let alone fly to Melbourne. But when one of my favourite conferences (and a former employer), UX Australia, makes a post-Covid comeback after five years with the assistance of the best conference organisers in the country […]| OZeWAI
Weekly Reading List September 1 2025 Join Vispero at the 2025 Future Travel Experience (FTE) Global Conference The FTE Global is the largest and most influential gathering of air transport executives in North America. JAWS for Kiosk Now Makes LG’s Kiosks Accessible Gen 2 Self-Ordering Kiosks are built with accessibility in mind from the outset. […]| OZeWAI
On 17 June, OZeWAI Co-Chairs Amanda Mace and Bri Norton and Committee Member Ricky Onsman participated in a WordPress Accessibility Meetup in which they talked about how OZeWAI has evolved over the years from a stand-alone annual conference for Australians interested in digital accessibility to a professional industry association with a membership comprising digitial accessibility […]| OZeWAI
Position Vacant: Senior IT Accessibility Specialist App/Web| OZeWAI
Accessibility testing: mobile and apps| ozewai.org
Read the full OZeWAI Newsletter 22 August. OZeWAI News “Ask The Professionals” 29 August: Embedding accessibility in teams “Ask The Professionals” 11 September: Testing for Accessibility on Mobile “Ask The Professionals” recording 30 July: Myth Busting Accessibility in Australian Tertiary Education OZeWAI at Web Directions: UX Australia Ask The Professionals: 2025 From the OZeWAI Website Universal […]| OZeWAI
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
ADA Kiosk Software Requirements: A Guide for Public Entities and Vendors David Sloan: While public entities might think about providing essential functionality and content, accessibility often remains an afterthought. On Dashes, A.I., and Screen Readers Ricky Onsman: This post was prompted by some discussion at TPGi about the use of em dash punctuation. Webinar: Translating […]| 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 […]| OZeWAI
Written by OZeWAI member Ricky Onsman. This post was prompted by some discussion at TPGi about the use of em dash punctuation, on two fronts: Is the use of the em dash making our posts look like they were generated by A.I.? How do screen readers convey em dashes? If, at this point, your reaction […]| OZeWAI
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
