Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) from the Intopia team! Every year on the third Thursday of May, we connect globally to celebrate GAAD. It’s an awareness day for digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people who live with disabilities or impairments.
This year, we’ve released some useful resources and made some exciting announcements. Thanks for joining us!
Intopia Criteria App
We are excited to announce the soft launch of Intopia’s Acceptance Criteria App, designed to simplify the task of writing accessibility acceptance criteria for your web projects.
Writing these criteria can be a repetitive, time-consuming task that often needs deep knowledge of accessibility. Our app takes on this challenge for you. Just pick your component from a list, answer questions that match your implementation and we’ll provide the accessibility acceptance criteria.
The Acceptance Criteria App will be a fantastic tool for anyone involved in web development, including business analysts, designers, developers, and testers.
This is an early ‘Alpha’ release to coincide with GAAD and gather feedback about the tool. We are working to expand the app to cover more components. You can follow the launch by following us on social media.
WCAG 2.2 Maps in German, French, Spanish, and Italian
You asked. We delivered.
Our English WCAG 2.2 Map launched in late 2023 and quickly became a global hit, gathering over 120,000 views on LinkedIn alone. We received an incredible amount of positive feedback but also requests for international versions. Encouraged by this, we got busy gathering versions in multiple languages to better serve our international community.
Check out the new WCAG 2.2 Map Translations in German, French, Spanish, and Italian!
A big thank you to Roberto Scano, Sandra Kallmeyer, Eric Eggert, Carlos Muncharaz Rodríguez, and the team at Koena for assisting with the translations.
View our WCAG 2.2 Map translations
Our new Designing for Web Accessibility course is here
Level up your skills with our newest Intopia Learn course ‘Designing for web accessibility’! Intopia Learn is our online training platform, allowing participants to engage with the material at their own pace.
The online self-paced ‘Designing for web accessibility’ course will give you the skills to make sure everyone can enjoy the beauty of your designs. This course is great for UX designers, visual designers, and digital professionals.
What you’ll learn
- Improve readability using colour, layout, and spacing
- How responsive design supports UI customisation
- Accessible alternatives for media and images
- Structuring content for easy navigation
- Designing for keyboard, pointer, and voice interaction
- Creating accessible forms
Cost: $297 AUD (GST inclusive) – 1 year access
Duration: 8-12 hours
Secure your Design Course spot
Don’t forget we also offer a ‘Developing for web accessibility’ course as well as many free short courses including ‘Accessibility fundamentals’.
10% off public training courses
Enhance your team’s digital accessibility and inclusion skills through our upcoming instructor-led public training courses. From affordable short workshops to in-depth ongoing courses, your team will gain the skills to tackle accessibility with confidence. Our public training courses are interactive, informed by real world examples, and led by experienced professionals.
Upcoming public training courses:
- Testing web accessibility for teams – Starting 4th June
- Accessible annotations for designers – 5th June
- Accessible forms for developers – 7th June
- Designing for digital accessibility – Starting 20th August
- Plus more in September and November 2024
Special offer
Use the code ‘TRAINING10’ to receive 10% off any public training bookings up to 11:59pm on 30th June 2024.
Secure your spot for our Public Training course
Want to chat accessibility?
At Intopia, we’re on a mission to create an inclusive digital world. Every day is Global Accessibility Awareness Day for us.
No matter where you are in your digital accessibility journey, Intopia’s friendly and skilled team will help you address accessibility and inclusion with confidence.
We offer services across accessibility assessments, conformance reports, education, strategy, operations, and equitable research and design.
If you’re not sure what the right product or service is for you, have a chat with us! We can talk through options, no matter your organisation’s size or budget. Get in contact with us.
