Recently I visited Dunedin. I always enjoy a visit to Dunedin, even if it is the middle of winter, perishing cold and threatening to rain most of the time, but the welcome is always warm. Of course the day I left was perfect.I was there for work as part of Otage Uni’s Disability Awareness Week. It was full on. I gave a speech and took part in a debate, which sadly we lost, although only because our adjudicator had the casting vote. Oh well, there was a pleasant little bottle of wine for each of us and it was fun. The speech was reported in the local rag and the photo wasn’t too ghastly I am told, even if the story contained the odd inaccuracy.
But that wasn’t all. There was an assortment of meetings, including on career services for disabled students and several about accessible information and web accessibility. We also ran two workshops, introductions to web accessibility and to information accessibility.
Information accessibility is a really interesting area for us at AccEase. We have always concentrated on web accessibility but information accessibility is equally important and our workshops had a really enthusiastic reception. There will be more to come, and we will be taking a more integrated approach to information accessibility. And so to quote a cliche – “watch this space”.
