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Latest Content
- Little Blue Plane gains GAWDS Web Accessibility Award, First Quarter 2008 added Monday 14 Apr 2008
- The captcha question added Wednesday 20 Feb 2008
- Is an Accessible Website Usable? added Wednesday 17 Oct 2007
- Assistive Technology Resources added Tuesday 21 Aug 2007
- Passion + talent + specialization = success added Friday 3 Aug 2007
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- Last Chance to Register for Accessibility 2.0 Event: Friday 18 Apr 2008
- Little Blue Plane gains first ever GAWDS Web Accessibility Award: Monday 14 Apr 2008
- GAWDS Award, First Quarter 2008: Thursday 20 Mar 2008
- The Highland Fling 2008 - The browser and beyond: Wednesday 19 Mar 2008
- Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom: Thursday 28 Feb 2008
- AbilityNet Recruiting Accessibility Consultant: Wednesday 27 Feb 2008
- Vision Australia looking for Manager of Online Accessibility Consulting: Thursday 14 Feb 2008
- Creating Accessible PDFs from Word 2007: Friday 25 Jan 2008
- Enation: Social networking sites lock out disabled users: Wednesday 23 Jan 2008
- AbilityNet Spring Training Courses: Friday 18 Jan 2008
- Layout Stability Research: Monday 17 Dec 2007
- AbilityNet now offer great value service agreements for 2008!: Thursday 29 Nov 2007
- Seminar in Scotland: Beyond the Web: Putting accessibility at the heart of your: Tuesday 6 Nov 2007
Guild of Accessible Web Designers
The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) is a worldwide association of professional organisations, web designers and developers working together to promote the use and preservation of accessible design standards.
"Promoting a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be, relevant, obtainable, and not at odds with successful business practice or good visual and usable design."
Join now if you are an accessible web designer or developer, or a supporter of accessible web design.
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Friday 20 Jun 2008
GAWDS Award, Second Quarter 2008
After a successful first round of the GAWDS Award for accessibility, we are now taking votes for second quarter of 2008.
The poll will be open until the end of the month (23:59 GMT on June 30th). Get voting now!
The award replaces the old Site of the Month feature. A review of the winning site will be written up and published for people to comment on.
If you are a GAWDS member with good technical auditing and writing skills and would be interested in writing a quarterly review, then please let us know.
You can find out more about the Award and Little Blue Plane, winner of the last GAWDS Award, in last quarter's review.
Jon
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Wednesday 11 Jun 2008
AbilityNet Summer Courses
We have 3 summer courses running at the British Computer Society (BCS) offices conveniently located off the Strand in central London. The first one is in a few weeks time on 2nd July!:
A practical introduction to website accessibility – Wednesday 2nd July. For more information and to book your place visit: http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webintroaccessibility
Rich media and latest trends in accessibility – Wednesday 16th July. For more information and to book your place visit: http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webrichmedia
A very practical guide to testing against WCAG1.0 and 2.0 – Tuesday 22nd July. For more information and to book your place visit: http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webpracticaltesting
Tuesday 22 Apr 2008
2 Web Accessibility Consultants Required - AbilityNet
You will join a dedicated consultancy team whose work is widely acclaimed. We are ideally looking for someone with an established reputation in the ICT accessibility field, with a focus on new media and web based applications. You will be expected to work as a member of a small team and gain the respect of your peers with minimum supervision, managing a variety of projects delivering web & software audits and accessible web design, speaking at public conferences, delivering training, initiating new work and helping deliver it to the highest standards. This is an opportunity to increase your reputation in this sector whilst gaining huge job satisfaction.
You will have an in-depth knowledge of HTML, CSS and the concepts of web accessibility; knowledge of JavaScript and ideally AJAX; an up-to-date knowledge on the range of assistive technology available to people with a disability; a flexible approach and first class presentation skills. The post will be based in an AbilityNet office in the London area and includes the flexibility to work from home.
For more information, please visit: Accessibility Posts.
