Archive for September, 2006

So Simon has gone and got­ten new toys to enthuse him to reg­u­larly take pho­tos and use on his trip. That was enough encour­age­ment for me to finally go get a new camera.

Warn­ing: image on post is 200k

Unfor­tu­nately, I spent a too much time pre­par­ing my Access­ib­il­ity Law in Aus­tralia present­a­tion and not enough time pre­par­ing this present­a­tion. What should of been 30 minutes plus on tech­niques to make forms more access­ible and usable, end up being 10 minutes or so going through a num­ber of points that should of been expanded…

Some people who listen to pod­cast or read the tran­script (both avail­able soon) of my present­a­tion on Access­ib­il­ity Law in Aus­tralia to the Perth Web Stand­ards Group may think I was down­play­ing the import­ance of access­ib­il­ity law (the Dis­ab­il­ity Dis­crim­in­a­tion Act 1992) in Aus­tralia. That was not my inten­tion, what I wanted to do was reflect the cur­rent situation.

Very few people make com­plaints about web­site access­ib­il­ity in Australia…