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Latest Content
- Little Blue Plane gains GAWDS Web Accessibility Award, First Quarter 2008 added Monday 14 Apr 2008
- The captcha question added Wednesday 20 Feb 2008
- Is an Accessible Website Usable? added Wednesday 17 Oct 2007
- Assistive Technology Resources added Tuesday 21 Aug 2007
- Passion + talent + specialization = success added Friday 3 Aug 2007
archive
- GAWDS Award, First Quarter 2008: Thursday 20 Mar 2008
- The Highland Fling 2008 - The browser and beyond: Wednesday 19 Mar 2008
- Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom: Thursday 28 Feb 2008
- AbilityNet Recruiting Accessibility Consultant: Wednesday 27 Feb 2008
- Vision Australia looking for Manager of Online Accessibility Consulting: Thursday 14 Feb 2008
- Creating Accessible PDFs from Word 2007: Friday 25 Jan 2008
- Enation: Social networking sites lock out disabled users: Wednesday 23 Jan 2008
- AbilityNet Spring Training Courses: Friday 18 Jan 2008
- Layout Stability Research: Monday 17 Dec 2007
- AbilityNet now offer great value service agreements for 2008!: Thursday 29 Nov 2007
- Seminar in Scotland: Beyond the Web: Putting accessibility at the heart of your: Tuesday 6 Nov 2007
- Article: Hiding Content From View: Monday 5 Nov 2007
- Job: Sales & Marketing Manager, Web Services, AbilityNet: Wednesday 10 Oct 2007
Guild of Accessible Web Designers
The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) is a worldwide association of professional organisations, web designers and developers working together to promote the use and preservation of accessible design standards.
"Promoting a vision of the future that assumes accessible web design to be, relevant, obtainable, and not at odds with successful business practice or good visual and usable design."
Join now if you are an accessible web designer or developer, or a supporter of accessible web design.
Featured members
Tuesday 22 Apr 2008
2 Web Accessibility Consultants Required - AbilityNet
You will join a dedicated consultancy team whose work is widely acclaimed. We are ideally looking for someone with an established reputation in the ICT accessibility field, with a focus on new media and web based applications. You will be expected to work as a member of a small team and gain the respect of your peers with minimum supervision, managing a variety of projects delivering web & software audits and accessible web design, speaking at public conferences, delivering training, initiating new work and helping deliver it to the highest standards. This is an opportunity to increase your reputation in this sector whilst gaining huge job satisfaction.
You will have an in-depth knowledge of HTML, CSS and the concepts of web accessibility; knowledge of JavaScript and ideally AJAX; an up-to-date knowledge on the range of assistive technology available to people with a disability; a flexible approach and first class presentation skills. The post will be based in an AbilityNet office in the London area and includes the flexibility to work from home.
For more information, please visit: Accessibility Posts.
Friday 18 Apr 2008
Last Chance to Register for Accessibility 2.0 Event
Hi everyone,
Just to say I'm really looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at Accessibility 2.0 on the 25th April at City University, London. It promises to be the best accessibility event of the year - in fact it's the only accessibility event dedicated to Web 2.0 so you'd be mad to miss it! We have some fantastic speakers from the industry - Jeremy Keith, Steve Faulkner and Christian Heilmann to name only a few.
We even have a pre show podcast to wet your appetite! (transcript available) - It can be downloaded from Web 2.0 Event.
Registration finishes at 3pm on Wednesday 23rd April so hurry up and book your place now!
For more information about our event and to register please visit: Web 2.0 Event.
Thanks, KathMonday 14 Apr 2008
Little Blue Plane gains first ever GAWDS Web Accessibility Award
Little Blue Plane has been awarded the first ever GAWDS Web Accessibility Award. Congratulations to the site's designer, Helena Boylen!
Find out more about the Award and the Little Blue Plane web site in the review: Little Blue Plane gains GAWDS Web Accessibility Award, First Quarter 2008
