Last Wednesday saw Gruden and Sitecore co-host an Accessibility Update seminar at the National Library in Canberra (previously). The event was well-attended with representatives from web teams from a range of government agencies. We opened with an update from Jacqui van Teulingen, Director of Web Policy at AGIMO, with an overview of the current status [...]
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Accessibility Update for the Australian Govt — Update
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AusTender & WCAG 2.0
A Strategy for Transition and Compliance The following is a transcript of a talk given by Peter Howard at the recent Accessibility Update for the Australian Government event in Canberra. Today, I’m going to be talking about how we’re managing the transition to WCAG 2 on the AusTender system. I’m hoping that our approach to the [...]
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On Chatter and What Matters
(Cross-posted) Some time back, I read an interesting writeup of a post by Twitter’s Evan Williams. Williams wrote: This last point [re. unstructured data] is not obvious but is particularly important for fulfilling Twitter’s goal of helping you discover the information that matters most to you as quickly as possible. Sippey: I think this is [...]
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Just What Is The Mobile Web?
Introduction With the dominance of the iPhone, the rapid rise of the iPad, and the advent of a wealth of devices based on Google’s Android or Windows Phone 7, the web is moving more than ever into the spaces beyond the desktop. While the mobile web has long been considered separate from the “desktop” web, [...]
Open Government Now
Introduction The idea of ‘Open Government’ has become popular in a few different forms over the past years, tending to follow general internet trends with only minor modification to make them appropriate to the context of government. More recently, however, it’s becoming a mature concept with clear goals and guiding principles. History In the late [...]
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What does WCAG 2.0 mean for me?
Introduction With version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) out now for 2 years, and with the Australian government committing to a timeline for transition to the latest guidelines, we’re increasingly hearing from clients trying to work out what’s actually involved in getting their sites up-to-date. Government agencies were leading the charge, but [...]
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Lost In Translation Video – Speaker Highlights
Following from Nathan’s roundup I’ve cut together a video featuring highlights of each of the speakers from our Lost In Translation event of 16 November. (Video embedded below, or view it on Vimeo) Speakers include: Mark Stanton (0’05), Technical Director at Gruden; Mark talks about the five things enterprise web development can learn from the [...]
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Five Things: Web Stuff We’re Thinking About
Inspired by a number of Five Things posts, many of which Dan Hon has catalogued; there are some great ideas across numerous disciplines in those linked posts; ours are all very webby. Mobile: while it’s been on our radar for a long time, the Australian market’s never had a lot of demand for mobile web; [...]
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Commercial Identity in the Social Media Space
Last week, on my personal site, I published On Chatter, an essay about Twitter, Facebook, and the nature of the always-on stream of noise, which I’m calling Chatter. We thought that some of it would be relevant to readers of the Gruden blog, so I’m reproducing a couple of excerpts here. Starting to Get Twitter [...]
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Adobe embracing the Open Web
Adobe’s MAX conference in the US two weeks ago included some interesting announcements. It was particularly exciting to see Adobe firming their commitment to open web technologies, with acquisitions of Typekit and Nitobi, the company behind PhoneGap, and new support for CSS3. Typekit have a technology and licensing arrangement that allow websites to incorporate a [...]