Thanks Jonathan,
They don't sell anything is a good sign, Please pardon my cynical
impatience for action.
I believe that the only real magic is taking action to promote or even
legally (1992 DDA) force change.
Shame them and name them, show their validation errors and
accessibility flaws.
Just don't have too many cucumber sandwiches chatting is my cynical
view.
For example See my review of the AGIMO award winning sites, a cucumber
sandwich festival.
My review of Australian UK and USA sites does differ from others?
1) It never finishes and is always being updated.
2) It is a longitudinal study exposing W3C flaws with links anyone can
follow to detail the errors.
3) It details errors and accessibility features that could be used
What about a page on Australian Universities similar to what I have
done for aus.gov.au sites.
Wouldn't that be of practical value to shame Aust universities not up
to scratch, rather than chatting and more sandwiches?
Not just a study which concludes things are not up to scratch, but a
page detailing errors and improvement which could be made.
Tell me a page on Australian university reviews like my other reviews
is not needed but more sandwiches are.
Australian government web sites
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html
USA sites
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/USAweb.html
UK sites
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/UKweb.html
Results
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/Results.html
Study design
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/WebSurvey.html
Bring academic studies into the real internet world, make them
available over the web, with suggestions and W3C validation links, help
the Universities with constructive criticism. No more sandwiches.
Tim
On 11/04/2007, at 12:32 PM, Jonathan O'Donnell wrote:
Hi Tim
The Web Accessibility Network for Australian Universities (WANAU) is a
volunteer group with no formal structure (that I know of), much like
Web Standards Group. It seeks to promote Web accessibility within
Australian universities.
They run a mailing list [1], forums at universities [2] and generally
have a 'birds of a feather' meeting at OZeWAI [3] and possibly other
conferences, like AusWeb.
WANAU is not from RMIT, although WANAU's 2007 Victorian forum was held
at RMIT. [4] I helped organise it and I chaired it. It was well
attended, with almost 100 people attending from most (if not all)
Victorian universities. People seemed to like it.
WANAU do not sell training courses. They don't sell anything,
actually.
Dey Alexander is an independent consultant. [5] She used to work for
Monash University. She probably has worked with Vision Australia in
the past. She has completed one review of Australian university Web
sites, similar to what you describe [6], and is currently undertaking
a second, to update the findings of the first review. The results
will be presented this year at AusWeb. [7]
[1] WANAU mailing list: <http://www.wanau.org/list.html>
[2] WANAU forums: <http://www.wanau.org/forums2007/>
[3] OZeWAI conference: <http://www.ozewai.org/>
[4] 2007 Victorian WANAU forum:
<http://www.wanau.org/forums2007/melbourne.html>
[5] Dey Alexander Consulting: <http://www.deyalexander.com/>
[6] Alexander Dey, 30 Jan 2004, "How Accessible Are Australian
University Web Sites?", Ariadne 38,
<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue38/web-watch/>
[7] AusWeb: <http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/>
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On 11/04/2007, at 11:38 AM, Tim wrote:
On 11/04/2007, at 9:41 AM, Susie Gardner-Brown wrote:
Web Accessibility Network for Australian Universities ...
http://www.wanau.org/site.html
They are proposing running their annual forum on Accessibility in
online teaching at UQ where I work, and we’ve been asked to help ...
:)
I expect I will be involved anyway, but would be interested in any
feedback!
Cheers
Susie
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Don't be conned Susie,
Who are this group, what have they done in previous forums since 2004.
Where was it held last year? Who attended last year?
I bet they are selling training courses, seen in links to a business
case on the W3C site..
Funny that they are from RMIT yet there is no action at their own
University. Multiple page errors. Fix your own Uni pages first.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rmit.edu.au%2F
They do have a few different stylesheets, but the changes between
them are minor colour changes.
I thought Dey Alexander was working with Vision Australia who to me
seem to accept low government standards to get training contracts
from AGIMO.
Following Maquire v Sydney Olympics, who does any legal advocation
for the blind apart from myself?
This group may want to sell you training contracts.
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html#visaust
Bloody hell I work hard on testing Australian sites including
Universities who should know better, what is WANAU, what have they
done. With a few dollars funding I could review all Australian
Universities and have a reference page showing those who fail and
why, what else do you need, fund me to complete a review of
University webpages and forget the talkfest.
Australian sites are in a bad way, few Universities know what
accessibility is.
http://www.hereticpress.com/Dogstar/Publishing/AustWeb.html
ANU fails
RMIT fails
Sydney Fail
Swinburne fails
I have done dozens reviews of Australian government websites and
advocated a legal position to HREOC. what has WANAU done apart from
make a few webpages?
Yours Faithfully
Tim Anderson
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