Gian will be presenting:

PDFs and accessibility: can they really be made accessible?

PDFs have always been an issue when it comes to accessibility. With the advent of WCAG2, it becomes the decision of policy-makers such as AGIMO and the Australian Human Rights Commission (formerly HREOC) as to whether PDFs are deemed an 'accessible technology' and whether they can be on a site without an accessible alternative. AGIMO has underaken a review of PDFs and their capacity to be made accessible, concluding that PDFs are not an accessible technology and therefore should always be included with an alternative format (HTML, Word, text or RTF). This was followed by a talk by AGIMO and Adobe on educating people on using PDFs. The feedback from many attendees is that now PDF is accessible.

and also the:

Changes to the AHRC Disability Discrimination Act

1/2 day workshop

For the first time since 1999, the Australian Human Rights Commission have updated their Disability Discrimination Act: Web Advisory Notes.

There are a lot of changes, the most important being of course, the endorsement of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Version 2.0. However there are many other interesting additions. In this half-day workshop, Gian will go through what's changed, what's been added and what you need to know.