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This section of the Vision Australia website provides a listing of web accessibility guidelines and policies for Australian Governments, Libraries, Education, Universities and Industry.

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accessED, a tool developed by education.au, allows you to test your site for conformance to W3C accessibility guidelines. accessED is a web accessibility desktop testing tool for Firefox, designed to help expose barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing accessibility guidelines. It allows you to test your website and content in one place, and check that your site has passed international accessibility guidelines. It provides an easy to read user interface that lets you know which parts of your site have passed (or failed) as well as instructions on how to make your site meet the requirements.

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The AccessForAll Meta-data specification is intended to make it possible to identify resources that match a user's stated preferences or needs. These preferences or needs would be declared using the IMS Learner Information Package Accessibility for LIP specification. The needs and preferences addressed include the need or preference for alternative presentations of resources, alternative methods of controlling resources, alternative equivalents to the resources themselves and enhancements or supports required by the user. The specification provides a common language for identifying and describing the primary or default resource and equivalent alternatives for that resource.

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From the web publishing guildelines of the Australian Government Information Management Office this page gives links to the guidelines and other information regarding making Government online information and resources accessible by all people. Major sections include: Accessibility; Assistive Technologies and Alternate Formats and Media.

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Report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission on a reference from the Attorney-General. Investigates the implications of the rapid development and use of new technologies in electronic commerce and the provision of government and other services, examines the difficulties and restrictions faced, advises on options for use of digital technology in removing barriers to access to government and business information and services, conducts an audit of the accessibility of Australian government and business internet sites, advises on needs and options for education or training to promote equal access to electronic information and services, suggests strategies for avoiding the marginalisation of these groups as a result of the use by service providers of such technologies, and suggests minimum standards.

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The Le@rning Federation Accessibility Specification conforms to Commonwealth laws concerning accessibility to ensure that project online resources and services are inclusive of a range of teaching and learning capacities, contexts and environments. It affirms policy commitments by State and Territory education systems to inclusive educational provision.

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This site has been created as a venue for sharing web content accessibility information in Australia. It is used for post-conference anouncements and as archive for the presentations given at OZeWAI symposiums. It is aimed at researchers, developers, commissioners and managers from all sectors as well as any member of the general public with an interest in making web content accessible to people who have alternative devices, especially people who are dependent upon alternative devices because they have a disability.

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This specification provides guidelines for designing Web content authoring tools that are more accessible for people with disabilities. An authoring tool that conforms to these guidelines will promote accessibility by providing an accessible authoring interface to authors with disabilities as well as enabling, supporting, and promoting the production of accessible Web content by all authors. "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" (ATAG 2.0) is part of a series of accessibility guidelines published by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

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The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities in their homes, schools, workplaces, and communities.NCAM's mission is: to expand access to present and future media for people with disabilities; to explore how existing access technologies may benefit other populations; to represent its constituents in industry, policy and legislative circles; and to provide access to educational and media technologies for special needs students.

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This is the site for DSIDTB: DAISY Software Initiative for Digital Talking Books. It contains DAISY standards. Both describe consistent ways to produce and play Digital Talking Books (DTB). Both support from text-only to audio-only through full synchronization of text and audio.