Web Directions Year round learning for product, design and engineering professionals

Organisations large and small are beginning to realise that writing for the Web is a specific challenge. Vision Australia is running a writing for the Web workshop in Perth toward the end of August, as well as a We Accessibility workshop. We’ve had VA speakers at Web Directions before (and this year Sofia Celic is one of the speakers at our W3C SIG Day, presented in conjunction with the W3C Australia Office), and as you’d expect, they really know their stuff.

So, if you are over in the West, take a look at their upcoming workshops.

Writing for the Web Workshop

Perth – 28 August 2007

Vision Australia is partnering with respected usability and accessibility expert Dey Alexander to offer a unique Writing for the Web workshop. Dey is co-convenor of the Web Accessibility Network of Australian Universities and is a regular presenter on useable and accessible web writing to the education, corporate and government sectors.

Focusing on excellent content writing, this practical workshop complements the Vision Australia

Further information is at: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=49

Web Accessibility Workshop

Perth – 30 August 2007

This full-day workshop run by Vision Australia is targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers.

This workshop provides a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them. It covers the World Wide Web Consortium’s Content Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation and a consideration of assessment tools and techniques.

Further information is at: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=54