Inclusive Design For Accessible Presentations
Written by Allison Ravenhall on December 3rd, 2018
To all the presenters of conferences, workshops, and meetups: I truly enjoy hearing your anecdotes and learning things from you. I like laughing at your jokes, especially the puns. Unfortunately,…
Giving Tuesday and Pledge 1%
Written by Ricky Onsman on November 27th, 2018
A short paragraph on the About Us page on our website runs as follows: “Intopia is a social enterprise, committed to supporting those that help others. We give five per…
Firefox Adds Support for CSS prefers-reduced-motion
Written by Allison Ravenhall on November 9th, 2018
On 23 October, Mozilla released Firefox 63. A new feature is support for the CSS media feature prefers-reduced-motion. Firefox 63 also supports the prefers-reduced-motion CSS media feature: it allows animation-heavy sites to provide alternative layouts…
World Usability Day 2018
Written by Renata Zanetti on November 8th, 2018
Elizabeth Rosenzweig founded World Usability Day to raise awareness of user-centred design, and she hopes that one day it will become part of the United Nations official list of days.…
My Impressions of A11y Camp 2018
Written by Allison Ravenhall on October 29th, 2018
I attended the three-day A11y Camp extravaganza in Melbourne in October – the biggest and best they’ve run to date. Here’s my round-up. Wednesday: An awesome WCAG 2.1 workshop Disclaimer:…
Intopia Financial Year Report 2017 to 2018
Written by Ricky Onsman on September 26th, 2018
If there is a single word that sums up Intopia’s most recent financial year, that word must be “growth”. In the year ended 30 June 2018, Intopia experienced growth – in numbers.…
24 Hours of Accessibility Talks: #ID24 is Back!
Written by Chris Pycroft on September 25th, 2018
Inclusive Design 24 (also known as #ID24) returns on Thursday 11 October and Intopia is proud to be, for the first time, a partner of the event! What is #ID24?…
World Interaction Design Day – Australian Events
Written by Chris Pycroft on September 24th, 2018
This Tuesday, the very first World Interaction Design Day (IxDD) will be held. The collaboration between the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) and Adobe will see more than 60 events happen…
Our Brand New Service – Intopia Connect!
Written by Chris Pycroft on August 10th, 2018
We’re thrilled to announce that a new initiative we’ve been working on has finally had its beta launch – Intopia Connect. It’s a platform that will allow organisations to get…
W3C Invites Comment on CAPTCHA Note Update
Written by Ricky Onsman on July 9th, 2018
On 3 July 2018, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a draft update to its 2005 note Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA. As the W3C blog post puts it, “Much has…
Can I use Firefox with JAWS and/or NVDA?
Written by Ricky Onsman on June 26th, 2018
TL;DR “Yes, if you’re using the latest versions.” Back in November last year, we advised JAWS and NVDA screen reader users not to upgrade to Firefox Quantum (version 57). The…
What’s new in WCAG 2.1?
Written by Ricky Onsman on June 15th, 2018
WCAG 2.1 was published in its final form in June 2018. WCAG 2.1 is an extension to WCAG 2.0 that provides guidance to better address some of the needs of people with disabilities accessing…