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On Wednesday 9 February, Intopia will be hosting a free webinar at 1pm AEDT presented by Russ Weakley (our Head of Inclusive Training) on accessible names and descriptions. The webinar is free to attend through Zoom.  Accessible names and descriptions are used to identify elements on a webpage including buttons…

As a part of this year’s IDPWD, Intopia will be hosting a free webinar at 1pm AEDT on Friday 3 December. It’s free to attend through Zoom, and a recording will be made available after the event. International Day of People with Disability (IDPWD) is held annually on 3 December.…

Thursday 11 November is World Usability Day, a day that brings together community and industry for a common goal – to ensure that essential services and products are easier to access and simpler to use. The day has been marked annually since 2005, celebrating the progress and success made in…

October 1 is the International Day of Older Persons, and in 2021 the United Nations has declared the theme Digital Equity for All Ages. Worldwide, the number of people aged 60 years and over already outnumbers children younger than 5 years old. Over the next three decades, the number of…

Intopia has partnered with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to help make this year’s Census the most accessible census ever. With an increasing number of Australians completing their Census online, a major program of work has been completed over the past 12 months to make the 2021 Census as…

The much anticipated First Public Working Draft of the W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 was recently released, with ongoing calls for feedback as the Working Draft develops. Showcasing a new structure, a new naming convention and promising a more understandable, easier to digest set of guidelines. These guidelines are expected…

Around the world, surveys are conducted that focus on technologies used by people who are blind or have low vision. The largest of these is done by WebAIM in the United States, including their Screen Reader User Survey and Survey of Users with Low Vision. However, there is usually very…

This week, Intopia launched the first ever Assistive Technology Survey, aimed at highlighting the trends and use of assistive technology by Australians and New Zealanders that have a disability. Over the past decade, surveys such as the WebAIM Screen Reader Survey have provided important insights to organisations on how they…

We’ve recently marked our five year anniversary as a company, and now we’re expanding our team to continue our quest to make the digital world inclusive for everyone. Intopia is now hiring for three roles: Business Development Consultant Senior Digital Accessibility Consultant Digital Accessibility Consultant Business Development Consultant We are…

Following the release of a proposed draft standard in July, Standards Australia has formally adopted AS EN 301 549:2020 – Accessibility requirements for ICT products and services. The refresh coincides with the four-year anniversary of the standard first being ratified in Australia in December 2016, and provides the minimum standard…

It’s fair to say that this year has been like no other. Just like many other annual days, this year’s International Day of People with Disability (IDPWD) acknowledges the current times, but also the opportunities for major improvements to digital accessibility and inclusion. It’s a case that many have continually…

Remote communication as a new norm During the COVID-19 pandemic, work is not the same. As a Forbes article by Nancy Doyle pointed out, as more people have been required to work from home, it debunks the myth that it is ‘too hard’ for people to work remotely. In this…