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February 23, 2012

Practical Accessibility – Canberra

Skills and strategies to prepare you for the WCAG 2 National Transition Strategy

It’s early 2012 and the National Transition Strategy (NTS) is already in effect. This means that by now, your organisation should have done its stocktake and identified what online content you’ve got, and how much of it is accessible, and how much work is ahead of you to make the rest compliant with the mandated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 (WCAG 2).

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March 15, 2012

Introduction to usability and UCD – Canberra

Usability, User Centred Design and the User Experience

A common problem with the user requirements gathering process is that users will often tell you what they think they want rather than what they actually need. Because users find the traditional requirements elicitation process difficult to understand, they will often sign off requirements even if they don’t understand them or think that functionality may be missing, so as to avoid looking stupid.

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March 22, 2012

Practical Accessibility – Canberra

Skills and strategies to prepare you for the WCAG 2 National Transition Strategy

It’s 2012 and the National Transition Strategy (NTS) is already in effect. This means that by now, your organisation should have done its stocktake and identified what online content you’ve got, and how much of it is accessible, and how much work is ahead of you to make the rest compliant with the mandated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 (WCAG 2).

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March 29, 2012

Defining a mobile strategy – Canberra

App or mobile website? Android or iPhone? iPad or tablet? Organisations often know they need to embrace the mobile channel, but do not know where to start. Other organisations have taken tentative steps into mobile, or developed ‘mobile compatible’ versions of their websites but find that their mobile offering is not delivering as expected. With so many different mobile devices, tablets, operating systems and other factors unique to the mobile channel, it can be difficult to know which parts to focus on to achieve business goals.

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Practical Accessibility – Sydney

Skills and strategies to prepare you for the WCAG 2 National Transition Strategy

It’s 2012 and the National Transition Strategy (NTS) is already in effect. This means that by now, your organisation should have done its stocktake and identified what online content you’ve got, and how much of it is accessible, and how much work is ahead of you to make the rest compliant with the mandated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2 (WCAG 2).

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March 30, 2012

Mobile design techniques – Canberra

Designing for mobile can be difficult, considering the wide variety of devices, languages, formats and options available for delivering a mobile service. Most importantly, people use mobile devices differently to how they use traditional websites and designing for mobile is often not as simple as just copying an existing web offering. Many experienced web designers and developers are finding they need to be across an enormous amount of new skills to keep up with the push to go mobile.

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April 11, 2012

Defining a mobile strategy – Sydney

App or mobile website? Android or iPhone? iPad or tablet? Organisations often know they need to embrace the mobile channel, but do not know where to start. Other organisations have taken tentative steps into mobile, or developed ‘mobile compatible’ versions of their websites but find that their mobile offering is not delivering as expected. With so many different mobile devices, tablets, operating systems and other factors unique to the mobile channel, it can be difficult to know which parts to focus on to achieve business goals.

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April 12, 2012

Mobile design techniques – Sydney

Designing for mobile can be difficult, considering the wide variety of devices, languages, formats and options available for delivering a mobile service. Most importantly, people use mobile devices differently to how they use traditional websites and designing for mobile is often not as simple as just copying an existing web offering. Many experienced web designers and developers are finding they need to be across an enormous amount of new skills to keep up with the push to go mobile.

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April 16, 2012

Defining a Mobile Strategy – Melbourne

App or mobile website? Android or iPhone? iPad or tablet? Organisations often know they need to embrace the mobile channel, but do not know where to start. Other organisations have taken tentative steps into mobile, or developed ‘mobile compatible’ versions of their websites but find that their mobile offering is not delivering as expected. With so many different mobile devices, tablets, operating systems and other factors unique to the mobile channel, it can be difficult to know which parts to focus on to achieve business goals.

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April 17, 2012

Mobile design techniques – Melbourne

Designing for mobile can be difficult, considering the wide variety of devices, languages, formats and options available for delivering a mobile service. Most importantly, people use mobile devices differently to how they use traditional websites and designing for mobile is often not as simple as just copying an existing web offering. Many experienced web designers and developers are finding they need to be across an enormous amount of new skills to keep up with the push to go mobile.

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