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About Category "Social Inclusion"

Post regarding Social Inclusion - and Exclusion. Likely to be some overlap with the Against Disablism category.

Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008

Vision Australia is running their popular Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008.

Audience:

web-development team leaders; corporate communications professionals; content authors; web programmers; web application developers; web designer; web contract managers

Paralympics New Zealand - One for the Rogues' Gallery

If any organisation should be aware of accessibility issues, a national Paralympics organisation should be. At the time of writing, the web site of Paralympics NZ is a disgrace.

Audience:

The accessibility community, disability groups, those interested in inclusion in sport.
Blogging Against Disablism Day

Book Review: The Short Bus

A review of Jonathan Mooney's book 'The Short Bus'. This review has been written to coincide with Blogging Against Disablism Day 2008.

Audience:

Those in contact with or interested in disability, special education, social inclusion or who are just looking for a good read.

Published:

Wednesday, 7th May 2008;
last updated on Monday, 12th May 2008

Beyond ALT Text - The Nielsen Norman report for free

Nielsen Norman Group releases its report 'Beyond ALT Text' for free.

Blogging Against Disablism

Going to Work - Time for a Rethink?

Teleworking exists and is embraced by employers with vision. There is, however, still too much of a culture that work is somewhere where one has to go, a culture which can be biased against people with disabilities.

Published:

Tuesday, 1st May 2007;
last updated on Sunday, 13th May 2007
Blogging Against Disablism Day 2007

BADD 2007

Blogging Against Disablism Day is on the first of May.

Published:

Friday, 20th April 2007

Good English, Poor Accessibility?

It may be time to re-evaluate what we were taught in school about Good English - following the rules may make our writings less accessible.

Published:

Thursday, 15th March 2007

Blogging Against Sexism - A Belated Entry

Smiffy loses track of time and tries to squeeze in a blog post before International Womens Day slips off the International Date Line.

British Parliament Debates Coeliac Disease

On February 21st, 2007, parliamentary member for Ochil and South Perthshire, Gordon Banks, presented a debate in British Parliament raising awareness of coeliac disease/gluten intolerance.

Published:

Saturday, 24th February 2007;
last updated on Tuesday, 8th April 2008

Web Accessibility - A Small Part of a Jigsaw

Article on how Web Accessibility is part of Accessibility as a whole.

Published:

Wednesday, 21st February 2007;
last updated on Tuesday, 8th April 2008