OZeWAI 2020
as the organisers put it
Australian Accessibility Conference (OZeWAI and PWAC) - exploring digital inclusion
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to | Liddy Nevile | 03m |
Conference opens with a clear repositioning: OZeWAI is shifting from community education to acting as a professional association that supports accessibility… | ||
| Welcome to Country | Aunty Violet | 02m |
Performs a Welcome to Country for OZeWAI attendees on Ngunnawal land, explains that “country” means homeland, resources, stories and ancestors’ domains rather… | ||
| A11y Driving Innovation | John Allsopp | 33m |
Conference shifts to month-long, half-day Friday sessions with pre-record + synchronized live stream, enabling edits, higher audio/video quality and inclusive… | ||
| No time like the present to protect our human rights | Pauline Wright | 30m |
Argues for a federal human rights act as a legislative first step toward constitutional protection, backed by the Law Council's refreshed policy covering eight… | ||
| Drinking Your Own Champagne | Ashlea Mckay | 37m |
An autistic user researcher actually runs usability interviews for an autism-at-work website built as a WordPress prototype for Untapped, testing content and… | ||
| Completing the Picture | Gerry Neustatl, Manisha Amin | 45m |
The Road for Australian Audio Described TV
View the full schedule: https://www.ozewai.org/virtual-conference/program | ||
| Senses Working Overtime | Doug Schepers | 01h 02m |
Argues that data visualizations are assistive technology not mere pictures and must offer equivalent non‑visual affordances: concise text summaries and data… | ||
| The Highs and Lows of Making Maths Content Accessible | Andrew Downie | 21m |
Math content reads fine as plain text for simple arithmetic, but complex equations require MathML for unambiguous navigation; MathML makes equations… | ||
| Sustainable Accessibility Learning | Bell Omuboye | 36m |
Begins by claiming beginners learn basics then stop because there’s no roadmap and proposes a concrete three-part path: the W3C/edX intro, follow WCAG… | ||
| Accessible Accessibility | Ron Au | 14m |
Surveyed organisations report 90% say accessibility matters while audits show only ~50% have accessible sites and 55% of frontend developers consider… | ||
| Lack of access - is it discrimination and what can you do? | Liddy Nevile, Julie Philips | 29m |
DDLS handles cases where digital or physical materials exclude someone: a blind lecturer cannot read photos, a PDF spreadsheet is unusable, a foreign‑language… | ||
| The path to accessible astronomy | Yuma Decaux | 31m |
An augmented reality app called Astros now pulls catalog data from NASA, ESA and TESS, exposes exoplanet candidates through a celestial search telemetry… | ||
| Understanding accessible procurement and applying AS EN 301 549 | Andrew Arch, Neil King | 20m |
Public procurement must require testable accessibility not vague promises citing AS EN 301 549 which now embeds WCAG 2.1 and maps criteria to hardware, web… | ||
| Accessible procurement of ICT done easy | Greg Alchin | 13m |
Argues that accessible procurement is practical and cost-effective, with a clear process: use EN 301-549 five steps (identify functional performance… | ||
| Safer Web Animations | Julie Grundy | 18m |
Argues that small, purposeful animations can reduce cognitive load by using motion to show where things come from rather than relying on labels, with concrete… | ||
| You talkin' to me? | Léonie Watson | 51m |
Starts from 1961 IBM voice demos and traces to the 2014 Amazon Echo to show concrete tooling: VXML for telephony, the Alexa SDK plus JSON requests/slots that… | ||
| Stories from the Solomon Islands – Christina Kuper | Christina Kuper | 08m |
Self driven re‑entry into IT uses APNIC online courses and self‑learning to rebuild skills and run training; earlier remote workshops for unemployed youth… | ||
| Stories from the Solomon Islands – Alice Aote'e | Alice Aote'e | 07m |
Solomon Islands gains reliable high‑speed internet from the Coral Sea Cable enabling seamless online conferences, schooling during COVID and growth of Facebook… | ||
| Get Online with a Screen Reader | Scott Nixon | 55m |
Live demo of VoiceOver on iPhone showing how to use the rotor gesture and one‑finger swipes to navigate Google, Amazon, eBay and the iTunes Store, including… | ||
| Automation for Inclusion | Brooke Jamieson | 27m |
A pragmatic workflow for inclusive smart spaces: tie building systems (lifts, sensors, conferencing, access control) into a PlaceOS layer and prioritise fixes… | ||
| Understanding Accessibility | Dax Castro | 29m |
Documents must meet WCAG AA in practice not just in name, with WCAG’s 50 criteria and 13 guiding principles driving expectations; PDFs differ from HTML because… | ||
| Designing for people with cognitive impairments | Andrew Arch, Sarah Pulis | 38m |
WCAG-driven, practical checklist for cognitive accessibility: use plain language, short sections with clear headings and TLDR summaries; avoid idioms and… | ||
| Silver - A look at what to expect in WCAG 3.0 | Amanda Mace | 21m |
WCAG 3 (Silver) expands scope beyond web content to cover apps, VR/AR, CMSs and assistive tech and replaces binary pass/fail with scoring 0–4 per outcome… | ||
| WAI Curricula | Daniel Montalvo | 29m |
WAI Curricula is a modular, role‑based course framework that publishes learning outcomes, prerequisite competencies, teaching strategies and assessment ideas… | ||
| Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) | Shadi Abou-Zahra | 32m |
Work to standardise automated and manual accessibility checks produces a machine-readable ACT rules format now a W3C recommendation, backed by EU seed funding… | ||
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